Twelfth
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Twelfth can mean:
- The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- The Twelfth, a Protestant celebration originating in Ireland
In mathematics:
- 12th, an ordinal number; as in the item in an order twelve places from the beginning, following the eleventh and preceding the thirteenth
- 1/12, a vulgar fraction, one part of a unit divided equally into twelve parts
Music
[edit]- The note twelve scale degrees from the root (current note, in a chord)
- The interval (music) (that is, gap) between the root and the twelfth note: a compound fifth
Currency
[edit]- Uncia (coin), a Roman coin worth 12th of an As