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sixteenth note

noun Music.

a note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note; semiquaver.

Origin:
1860–65

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sixteenth note

—n
	(US), (Canadian) music Also called (in Britain and certain other countries) semiquaver a note having the time value of one-sixteenth of a semibreve

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