SIXTEENTH

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.

2.
a.

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.

3.
n.

The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.

4.
n.

The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.

5.
n.

An interval comprising two octaves and a second. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

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