eighth

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

Rhymes with -eɪtθ, -eɪθ

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw

Proto-Indo-European *oḱtowós

Proto-Germanic *ahtudô

Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō

Old English eahtoþa

Middle English eightethe

English eighth

Inherited from Middle English eightethe, from Old English eahtoþa, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô; equivalent to eight + -th (ordinal suffix).

not comparable The ordinal form of the number eight. Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.

The person or thing in the eighth position.
One of eight equal parts of a whole. Two bits equals two eighths of a dollar.
slang An eighth of an ounce, or approximately 3.5 grams, of marijuana or other drugs. At midday he’d found an ageing eighth of hash in a drawer, a little bundle of cellophane.
An interval by doubling in pitch frequency.

transitive To divide by eight. The first step is to eighth the script out. See figure 3.6 overleaf. Eighthing a script is subjective.