The sixth degree of the diatonic scale Also, the interval formed by a given tone and the sixth tone above or below it, e g c up to a, or c down to e Intervals of the sixth may be major, minor, diminished, or augmented
the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it position six in a countable series of things coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position
A sixth is one of six equal parts of something. The company yesterday shed a sixth of its workforce. five-sixths of a mile. coming after five other things in a series. one of six equal parts of something