sixteenth
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- noun
- /sɪkˈstiːnθ/
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- Please note that this afternoon's main race has been taken off the turf and will be run at a mile and one-sixteenth on the main track.
- one sixteenth of an inch
- one sixteenth
- about one sixteenth
Examples
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The proportion of the aid budget directly related to health improvement thus amounted to about one-sixteenth of total outlays.
Academic text (1993) -
The actual root size is 1.5 mm (about one-sixteenth of an inch) across.
Academic text (1997) -
- We gotta give him a sixteenth of the well.
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In my opinion, the only good thing about the close season was the fact that it meant there was an opening day: June sixteenth.
Fiction book (2002) -
You walked into Joseph's class on Tuesday, April sixteenth.
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She kicked off the snow and took a purposeful whack, getting maybe a sixteenth of an inch in.
Fiction book (1993) -
With a bold rush, Fortune rallied along the outside, passing Ride the Wind, smoking a sixteenth of a mile in front of Holy Terror, taking the turn half a length behind.
Fiction book (1997) -
A4 is half of an A3, or one quarter of an A2, but more importantly, it's one sixteenth of an A0.
Blog text (11) -
This identification is strengthened by the embryos' minute teeth, less than one-sixteenth of an inch long, which are also like those of titanosaurs.
Academic text (2002) -
We shared the pizza equally, giving each person a sixteenth of it.
Synonyms
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One of sixteen equal parts of a whole
One of sixteen equal parts of a whole
Compounds
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5.8
A very short sound in music that lasts one sixteenth of a whole note
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Etymology
Sixteenth as a part comes from the number sixteen, which is six + -teen, so a sixteenth is one of 'sixteen' equal pieces — like one slice of a cake cut into sixteen parts.