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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: coming next after the fifteenth in position [syn: sixteenth, 16th] n
1: position 16 in a countable series of things
2: one part in sixteen equal parts [syn: one-sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth part]

Merriam Webster's

adjective or noun see sixteen

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sixteenth Six"teenth`, a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixte['o]?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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sixteenths) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. The sixteenth item in a series is the one that you count as number sixteen. ...the sixteenth century AD. ORD 2. A sixteenth is one of sixteen equal parts of something. ...a sixteenth of a second. FRACTION