Sixth

(noun.) the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it.

(noun.) position six in a countable series of things.

(adj.) coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position .

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• The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Rome mission was sent by Pope Gregory the Great just at the close of the sixth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I did not know, myself, until the sixth of this present month, when I went to look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• For example, the sid e of a hexagon inscribed in a circle is equal to the radius, and is the chord of 60°, or of the sixth part of the circle. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The sixth Bounty of this kind was that granted by 11th Geo. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I returned to my old headquarters outside in the afternoon, and did not move into the town until the sixth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• An ordinary man can do one sixth of a horse power. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The trade that was going on in the ancient world before the sixth or seventh century B.C. was almost entirely a barter trade. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This the Romans did by giving to two days in leap-year the same name; t hus the sixth day before the first of March was repeated, and leap-year was known as a bissextile year. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The difficulty of making a way through the dense forests prevented Burnside from getting up in time to be of any service on the forenoon of the sixth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There is good evidence of them at least as early as the sixth century. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nor is it a sixth impression, which the mind by reflection finds in itself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Several hundred years later the days were divided into sections which were called hours, such as the sixth hour (noon), the ninth hour (three o’clock), the eleventh hour (five o’clock), etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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