sixteenth

Two to fourth power

Sixteenth describes something occupying position number sixteen in an ordered sequence, or one of sixteen equal parts into which something is divided.

She finished sixteenth in the race.

A sixteenth is the fraction 1/16, and in music, a sixteenth note receives one-sixteenth the duration of a whole note.

The sixteenth of a month is often shortened in dates: the 16th.

fraction

thirty-second

Ordinal for thirty-two

denominator · numerator · proportion · ratio · decimal · percentage · division · slice · segment · part

ordinal

seventeenth

Ranking at position seventeen

nineteenth · thirteenth · twentieth · twelfth · eleventh · tenth · ninth · eighth · seventh · fifth

note

dotted

Marked with small points

measure · bar · beat · time-signature · notation · score · rhythm · syncopation · staccato · legato

birthday

coming-of-age

Youth becoming adulthood

party · teenager · adolescence · youth · candles · cake · gifts · landmark

century

renaissance

Period of renewed vitality

Ottoman · Mughal · Ming · exploration · colonization · Shakespeare · Michelangelo · Copernicus · Luther · Magellan

Categories
Opposites
ordinal position

sixteenthfirst

Position number one

last · final · initial · second · third

number type

sixteenthsixteen

Number after fifteen

cardinal

Phrases
Family

sixteen, sixteenths

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