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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

consecutive intervals, degree, diapason, diatessaron, diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval, farthing, fifth, fourth part, half step, halftone, interval, less semitone, melodic interval, note, octave, one-fourth, parallel octaves, quart, quarter, quartern, quarto, second, semitone, seventh, sixth, step, third, tone, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bits, unison interval, whole step

Dictionary Results for fourth:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

fourth
    adv 1: in the fourth place; "fourthly, you must pay the rent on
           the first of the month" [syn: fourthly, fourth]
    adj 1: coming next after the third and just before the fifth in
           position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary
           period of geologic time extends from the end of the
           tertiary period to the present" [syn: fourth, 4th,
           quaternary]
    n 1: following the third position; number four in a countable
         series
    2: one of four equal parts; "a quarter of a pound" [syn: one-
       fourth, fourth, one-quarter, quarter, fourth part,
       twenty-five percent, quartern]
    3: the musical interval between one note and another four notes
       away from it

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fourth \Fourth\, a. [OE. fourthe, ferthe, feorthe, AS.
   fe['o]r[eth]a, fr. fe['o]wer four.]
   1. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four.
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   2. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be
      divided.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Fourth \Fourth\, n.
   1. One of four equal parts into which one whole may be
      divided; the quotient of a unit divided by four.
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   2. (Mus.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing
      four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any
      key.
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   3. One coming next in order after the third.
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   The Fourth, specifically, in the United States, the fourth
      day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of
      American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.
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