Six"teenth` (?), a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixteoa.]
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.
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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.)
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