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
- 1st Battalion 5th Marines
- 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
- A Fifth-generation programming language
- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) is commonly referred to as Beeethoven's Fifth
- 5 (Soft Machine album)
- A common term for 750 mL of hard liquor, approximately one fifth of a U.S. gallon.
- A political term, fifth column
- Fifth disease - a contagious rash that spreads in school aged children
- Fifth force - a proposed force of nature in addition to the four known fundamental forces
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
