Crossword clues for fifteenth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, a. [OE. fiftenthe; cf. fiftethe, AS. f[=i]fte[=o][eth]a. See Fifteen.]
Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.
Consisting of one of fifteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
Fifteenth \Fif"teenth`\, n.
One of fifteen equal parts or divisions; the quotient of a unit divided by fifteen.
A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at.
--Burrill.-
(Mus.)
A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.
An interval consisting of two octaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number fifteen. n. 1 The person or thing in the fifteenth position. 2 One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.
WordNet
adj. coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position [syn: 15th]
n. position 15 in a countable series of things
Wikipedia
In music, a fifteenth or double octave, abbreviated 15, is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter the wavelength or quadruple the frequency. It has also been referred to as the bisdiapason. The fourth harmonic, it is two octaves. It is referred to as a fifteenth because, in the diatonic scale, there are 15 notes between them if one counts both ends (as is customary). Two octaves (based on the Italian word for eighth) do not make a sixteenth, but a fifteenth. In other contexts, the term two octaves is likely to be used.
For example, if one note has a frequency of 400 Hz, the note a fifteenth above it is at 1600 Hz (15 ), and the note a fifteenth below is at 100 Hz (15 ). The ratio of frequencies of two notes a fifteenth apart is therefore 4:1.
As the fifteenth is a multiple of octaves, the human ear tends to hear both notes as being essentially "the same", as it does the octave. Like the octave, in the Western system of music notation notes a fifteenth apart are given the same name—the name of a note an octave above A is also A. However, because of the large frequency distance between the notes, it is less likely than an octave to be judged the same pitch by non-musicians. Passages in parallel fifteenths are much less common than parallel octaves. In particular, sometimes an organist will use two stops a fifteenth away (notated as 2′).
Usage examples of "fifteenth".
The exterior aspect of the Baptistery does not give one the idea of a building restored in the thirteenth, but rather in the fifteenth century.
But one wants more than that, and--and-- what I learned in Byzant squared with what I saw with the Fifteenth.
Martin Behaim of Nuremberg, the celebrated cosmographer of the close of the fifteenth century.
Fifteenth Amendment, now proposed, did not attempt to declare affirmatively that the negro should be endowed with the elective franchise, but it did what was tantamount, in forbidding to the United States or to any State the power to deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
In the fifteenth century the influence of Huss and the humanists had in different ways formed channels facilitating the inrush of Lutheranism.
It mentions a number of Bibles in Greek, Latin and the vernaculars, the works of Luther, Carlstadt, Osiander, Ochino, Bullinger, Calvin, Oecolampadius, Jonas, Calvin, Melanchthon, Zwingli, Huss and John Pupper of Goch, a Dutch author of the fifteenth century revived by the Protestants.
The contentions which have arisen between political parties as to the rights of negro suffrage in the Southern States, would scarcely be cognizable judicially under either the Fourteenth or the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
He was born eight months and twentysix days after my stay at Pont Labbe, for I recollect perfectly that we reached Lorient on the fifteenth of August.
These were Jews whose forefathers fled the Spanish inquisition at the end of the fifteenth century and huddled together in Asia Minor, speaking Ladino, the language of the Spanish Middle Ages.
Swedish muralist of the latter half of the fifteenth century, Albertus Pictus.
In the fifteenth century, numerous authors demonstrated the coherence and revolutionary originality of this new immanent ontological knowledge.
Christ who is our Pasch was slain on the following day--that is, on the fifteenth day of the moon--nevertheless, on the night when the Lamb was sacrificed, delivering to the disciples to be celebrated, the mysteries of His body and blood, and being held and bound by the Jews, He hallowed the opening of His own immolation--that is, of His Passion.
When it is said, then, that they were going to eat the Pasch on the fifteenth day of the month, it is to be understood that the Pasch there is not called the Paschal lamb, which was sacrificed on the fourteenth day, but the Paschal food--that is, the unleavened bread--which had to be eaten by the clean.
Although other interpretive decisions of federal courts are unavailable, many State courts, taking their cue from pronouncements of the Supreme Court as to the operative effect of the similarly phrased Fifteenth Amendment, have proclaimed that the Nineteenth Amendment did not confer upon women the right to vote but only prohibits discrimination against them in the drafting and administration of laws relating to suffrage qualifications and the conduct of elections.
She had been practically hysterical when she got her practicum changed from fifteenth to fourteenth century England, and how did either century qualify as a practicum?