EIGHTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eighth mean? 

• EIGHTH (noun)
  The noun EIGHTH has 2 senses:

1. position eight in a countable series of things

2. one part in eight equal parts

  Familiarity information: EIGHTH used as a noun is rare.

• EIGHTH (adjective)
  The adjective EIGHTH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position

  Familiarity information: EIGHTH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EIGHTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Position eight in a countable series of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("eighth" is a kind of...):

rank (relative status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One part in eight equal parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

eighth; one-eighth

Hypernyms ("eighth" is a kind of...):

common fraction; simple fraction (the quotient of two integers)

• EIGHTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position

Synonyms:

8th; eighth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

Mars will leave Capricorn, your eighth house, on March 30.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

The moon is unusually massive compared to its planet, about one-eighth of Pluto's mass, a solar system record.

(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)

For the eighth consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the National Institutes of Health - developed DASH Diet “best overall” diet among nearly 40 it reviewed.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)

The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(August, NCI Thesaurus)

August the twenty-eighth—the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the eighth power of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Hundred Million Per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A measure of weight (one-sixteenth pound) and volume (one-eighth cup).

(Ounce, NCI Dictionary)

Painless hemorrhage in the last trimester, particularly during the eighth month, is the most common symptom.

(Placenta Previa, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The designation for each member of the eighth largest human autosomal chromosome pair.

(Chromosome 8, NCI Thesaurus)