ninths
SayNYNTHS/naɪnθs/
- 1Plural of ninth.
The recipe divides the dough into equal ninths before baking.
Two ninths of the annual budget went toward building repairs.
Note
Three different nouns share this one plural. In arithmetic it counts fractions, as in two ninths or four ninths of the total. In music it names intervals, so a passage can move between minor and major ninths, thirteen and fourteen semitones wide. It can also count things in the ninth position. The same spelling serves the rare verb meaning to divide by nine: a cook who ninths the dough.
ninths is a form of ninth
ninth, noun: The person or thing that occupies position nine in a sequence or ranking. Full entry
- Forms
- ninthninths plural
- Spelling
- ninth → ninths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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