Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: *

Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution creates several constitutional rights, limiting governmental powers focusing on United States constitutional criminal procedure, criminal procedures. It was ratified, along with ...

, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" *

Fifth Avenue Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue runs south from 143rd Street (Manhattan), West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The se ...

Fifth column A fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nation. The activities of a fifth column can be overt or clandestine. Forces gathered in secret can mobilize ...

, a political term *

Fifth disease Fifth disease, also known as erythema infectiosum and slapped cheek syndrome, is a common and contagious disease caused by infection with parvovirus B19. This virus was discovered in 1975 and can cause other diseases besides fifth disease. Fifth ...

, a contagious rash that spreads in school-aged children * Fifth force, a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces *

Fifth of July (New York) The Fifth of July is a historic celebration of an Emancipation Day in New York (state), New York, marking the culmination of the state's History of slavery in New York (state)#Gradual abolition, 1827 abolition of slavery after a gradual legisl ...

, historic celebration of an Emancipation Day in New York * Fifth (''Stargate''), a robotic character in the television series ''Stargate SG-1'' *

Fifth (unit) A fifth is a unit of measurement, unit of volume formerly used for Wine bottle, wine and distilled beverages in the United States, equal to one fifth of a gallon#US liquid gallon, US liquid gallon, or ; it has been superseded by the metric syste ...

, a unit of volume formerly used for distilled beverages in the U.S. * 1st Battalion, 5th Marines * The

fraction A fraction (from , "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight-fifths, thre ...

1/5 * The royal fifth (Spanish and Portuguese), an old royal tax of 20%

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interval (music) In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds. An interval may be described as horizontal, linear, or melodic if it refers to successively sounding tones, such as two adjacent pitches in a melody, and vertical or har ...

; specifically, a **

perfect fifth In music theory, a perfect fifth is the Interval (music), musical interval corresponding to a pair of pitch (music), pitches with a frequency ratio of 3:2, or very nearly so. In classical music from Western culture, a fifth is the interval f ...

** diminished fifth **

augmented fifth In Western classical music, an augmented fifth () is an interval produced by widening a perfect fifth by a chromatic semitone.Benward & Saker (2003). ''Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I'', p.54. . For instance, the interval from C to G i ...

* Quintal harmony, in which chords concatenate fifth intervals (rather than the third intervals of tertian harmony) *

Fifth (chord) In music, the fifth factor (chord), factor of a chord (music), chord is the note (music), note or pitch (music), pitch that is the fifth scale degrees, scale degree, counting the root (chord), root or tonality, tonal center. When the fifth is th ...

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chord (music) In Western music theory, a chord is a group of notes played together for their harmony, harmonic Consonance and dissonance, consonance or dissonance. The most basic type of chord is a Triad (music), triad, so called because it consists of three ...

, member separated from the chord's root by one of the above fifth-intervals ** The

dominant (music) In music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present ...

or fifth diatonic scale degree, and the chord built on it *Musical compositions ** Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), commonly referred to as Beethoven's Fifth ** ''Fifth'' (Soft Machine album), 1972 ** ''The Fifth'' (Bad Boys Blue album), 1989 ** ''The Fifth'' (Dizzee Rascal album), 2013 ** ''The Fifth'' (Obie Trice album), 2019 ** ''5th'' (Lee Michaels album), 1971 ** ''Fifth'' (The Autumn Defense album), 2014 ** "Fifths" (song), a song by deadmau5 * The Fifth (band), a hard rock band from Fayetteville, North Carolina

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