fourths

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• fourths — fÉ”rθ /fɔːθ n. number 4 in a series; one part of four equal parts, 1/4 adj. next after the third; being one of 4 equal parts …   English contemporary dictionary

• All fourths — is an alternate tuning for a guitar. It eliminates the major third in between the fourth and fifth strings. Thus, the interval in between each string is a perfect fourth. The result looks like this: E A D G C F. It is believed that Bob Bianco… …   Wikipedia

• three-fourths — QUANT: QUANT of n In American English, people sometimes use three fourths to mean three quarters. Three fourths of the apartments in the ghetto had no heat... Government expenditures absorbed nearly three fourths of the national income. PRON… …   English dictionary

• three fourths — ˌthree ˈfourths [three fourths] noun plural (US) = ↑three quarters …   Useful english dictionary

• three-fourths clause — A provision in a policy of insur ance that the insurer shall not be liable for an amount greater than a stated part or percentage, usually three fourths, of the actual cash value of the property insured. 29A Am J Rev ed Ins § 1547 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• three-fourths — noun three of four equal parts three fourths of a pound • Syn: ↑three quarters • Hypernyms: ↑common fraction, ↑simple fraction …   Useful english dictionary

• three-fourths value clause — noun : an insurance policy provision limiting the insurer s liability to an amount not greater than three fourths of the cash value of the insured property but not exceeding the face of the policy often used to cause the insured to safeguard the… …   Useful english dictionary

• three-fourths — adjective Of three quarters the original size …   Wiktionary

• Bartholomews rule of fourths — if the uterine fundus is one fourth of the way from the pubic symphysis to the umbilicus, the pregnancy is of two months duration; one half of the way, three months duration; three quarters of the way, four months duration; at the umbilicus, five …   Medical dictionary

• three fourths —    Ekolu hapahā …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

• Quartal and quintal harmony — In music, quartal harmony is the building of chordal and melodic structures with a distinct preference for intervals of fourths . (.Use of the term arises from a contrast, compositional or perceptual, with traditional tertian harmonic… …   Wikipedia