Sixteenth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Sixteenth	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sixteenth adj coming next after the fifteenth in position [syn: sixteenth, 16th] n position 16 in a countable series of things one part in sixteen equal parts Synonym(s): one-sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth part
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sixteenth \Six"teenth`\, a. [From {Sixteen}: cf. AS. sixte[a2][?]a.] 1. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth. 2. Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. {Sixteenth note} (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sixteenth \Six"teenth`\, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole. 2. The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth. 3. (Mus.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second. --Moore (Encyc. of Music.)