eleventh

num. coming after the tenth and before the twelfth.

num. the ordinal form of the number eleven, indicating a position in a sequence.

“Today is the eleventh of May, so the festival starts tomorrow.”

“The runner finished in eleventh place, narrowly missing out on a top-ten ranking despite a strong final sprint.”

n. one of eleven equal parts of a whole.

n. one of eleven equal parts into which a whole is divided.

“If you divide the cake into eleven pieces, each piece is one eleventh.”

“The mathematician calculated that an eleventh of the total volume would be lost to evaporation during the heating process.”

n. a musical note that is eleven steps away from the first note.

n. an interval consisting of an octave plus a fourth; the eleventh scale degree from the root.

“The jazz pianist added an eleventh to the chord to make it sound more complex.”

“The composer utilised a sharp eleventh in the arrangement to create a sense of harmonic tension that resolved in the final bar.”

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