Fifth
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Fifth may refer to:
- One fifth, a quintile, or 20% of a certain amount
- The fifth in a series, or four after the first
- In the United States, the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution especially as in the expression "Taking the Fifth".
- Fifth (Stargate), a robotic character in the television series Stargate SG-1
- the FIFTH programming language
- Beethoven's fifth symphony (commonly referred to as 'The Fifth')
- Fifth (Soft Machine album)
- A term for 750 ml of hard liquor. Technically imprecise, since one fifth of a gallon is 757 ml.
- A political term, fifth column
In music theory:
- A musical interval; specifically, a perfect fifth, diminished fifth or augmented fifth
- A chord member separated from the chord's root by one of the above intervals
- The dominant or fifth diatonic scale degree, and the chord built on it
