sixteenth
next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
being one of 16 equal parts.
a sixteenth part, especially of one (1/16).
the sixteenth member of a series.
Music. sixteenth note.
Origin of sixteenth
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How to use sixteenth in a sentence
Protecting its most valued informant may well explain why it took decades to bring the sixteenth Street Church bombers to justice.
40 years for Justice: Did the FBI Cover for the Birmingham Bombers? | Gary May | September 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWas Rowe involved in the bombing of the sixteenth Street Baptist Church?
40 years for Justice: Did the FBI Cover for the Birmingham Bombers? | Gary May | September 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerVirginia now ranks sixteenth in population among the fifty states of the United States.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyWe will now take the reader to the primitive tobacco plantations of America about the middle of the sixteenth Century.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
In a special alcove was a large number of priceless Fourteenth and sixteenth Century editions.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonDucking back through the firedoor, he ran quickly up to the sixteenth floor, up past the fifteenth.
British Dictionary definitions for sixteenth
/ (ˈsɪksˈtiːnθ) /
(usually prenominal)
coming after the fifteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc; being the ordinal number of sixteen: often written 16th
(as noun): the sixteenth of the month
one of 16 equal or nearly equal parts of something
(as modifier): a sixteenth part
the fraction that is equal to one divided by 16 (1/16)
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