fifteenth

num. coming after the fourteenth and before the sixteenth.

num. the ordinal number matching the cardinal number fifteen in a series.

“Today is the fifteenth of May, so the rent is due.”

“The fifteenth chapter of the biography provides a detailed account of the author's travels through Southeast Asia during the late 1970s.”

n. one of fifteen equal parts of a whole.

n. one of fifteen equal parts into which a whole is or may be divided.

“If you divide the cake into fifteen pieces, each piece is one fifteenth.”

“The surveyor calculated that a fifteenth of the total land area would need to be reserved for public drainage systems.”

n. a very large musical gap between two notes, covering two octaves.

n. the musical interval comprising two full octaves; a compound interval of a second octave.

“The singer reached a high note that was a fifteenth above the starting note.”

“The organist utilised a stop that sounded a fifteenth above the unison pitch, adding a brilliant shimmer to the final chord.”

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