• (a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth. • (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole. • (a.) Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. • (n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth. • (n.) A... Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/sixteenth/
Six'teenth` adjective [ From Sixteen : confer Anglo-Saxon 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 sixte... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/111