Dictionary entry

Sixteenth

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Six″teenth′ (?), a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixteó�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.