Usually means: Interval of five scale degrees.
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  1. fifths: Merriam-Webster
  2. fifths: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fifths: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fifth's, Fifths, fifths: Wordnik
  5. fifths: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fifths: Wiktionary
  7. fifths: Dictionary.com
  8. fifths: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Fifths: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Fifths: Encyclopedia

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  1. Fifths: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Fifth)

adjective:  The ordinal form of the number five.
noun:  (ellipsis or nominalization) The person or thing in the fifth position.
noun:  (ellipsis) The fifth gear of a transmission.
noun:  One of five equal parts of a whole: one-fifth.
noun:  (US) A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of an American gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters (that is, three quarters of a liter).
noun:  (music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)
noun:  The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
verb:  (music) To sing in the fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.
verb:  (transitive) To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.
verb:  (transitive, nonstandard) To divide by five.
noun:  (chiefly US, informal, with the) The Fifth Amendment.
noun:  (chiefly US, informal, with the, by extension) The right not to give self-incriminating testimony.
noun:  (chiefly US) Fifth Avenue.
noun:  (chiefly US) Fifth Street.
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