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Adjective: sixteenth  'siks'teenth
  1. Coming next after the fifteenth in position
    - 16th
Noun: sixteenth  'siks'teenth
  1. Position 16 in a countable series of things
     
  2. One part in sixteen equal parts
    - one-sixteenth, sixteenth part

Derived forms: sixteenths

See also: ordinal

Type of: common fraction, rank, simple fraction, vulgar fraction [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Sixteenth