Seventh is the
ordinal form of the number
seven.
Seventh may refer to:
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Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Seventh Amendment (Amendment VII) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.
An ...
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fraction (mathematics)
A fraction (from la, fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight ...
, , equal to one of seven equal parts
Film and television
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The Seventh", a second-season episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
Music
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seventh (interval), the difference between two pitches
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Diminished seventh, a chromatically reduced minor seventh interval
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Major seventh
In music from Western culture, a seventh is a musical interval encompassing seven staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major seventh is one of two commonly occurring sevenths. It is qualified as ''major'' because it is ...
, the larger of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
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Minor seventh
In music theory, a minor seventh is one of two musical intervals that span seven staff positions. It is ''minor'' because it is the smaller of the two sevenths, spanning ten semitones. The major seventh spans eleven. For example, the interval fro ...
, the smaller of two commonly occurring musical intervals that span seven diatonic scale degrees
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Harmonic seventh
The harmonic seventh interval, also known as the septimal minor seventh, or subminor seventh, is one with an exact 7:4 ratio (about 969 cent (music), cents). This is somewhat narrower than and is, "particularly sweet", "sweeter in quality" tha ...
, the interval of exactly 4:7, whose approximation to the minor seventh in equal temperament explains the "sweetness" of the dominant seventh chord in a major key
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Augmented seventh, an interval
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Leading-tone or subtonic, the seventh degree and the chord built on the seventh degree
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Seventh chord
A seventh chord is a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord's root. When not otherwise specified, a "seventh chord" usually means a dominant seventh chord: a major triad together with a mino ...
, a chord consisting of a triad plus a note forming an interval of a seventh above the chord root
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Seventh (chord), a factor of a chord
* Seventh, an Australian independent band who provided music for the 2001 video game ''
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis''
* The Seventh, stage name of American football player and singer-songwriter
Chris Paul (American football)
See also
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Seventh Army (disambiguation)
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Seventh Avenue (disambiguation) Seventh Avenue most commonly refers to Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), a street in Manhattan, New York City.
The name may also be used to reference:
Streets and transportation
* Seventh Avenue, Newark, a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey
* Seventh A ...
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Seventh day (disambiguation)
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Seventh Generation (disambiguation)
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Seventh Heaven (disambiguation)
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Seventh Sea (disambiguation)
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Seventh son of a seventh son (folk concept)
* ''
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son'' (music album)
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