sixteenth
/ˌsɪksˈtiːnθ
/ordinal number
1Constituting number sixteen in a sequence; 16th: the late sixteenth century...
- During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Southwark was London's bawdy pleasure district.
- The first great European ocean sailors were sent out in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to explore the world.
- From the start of the sixteenth century, as manufacturing techniques improved, Portugal started making its own highly distinctive tiles, synthesizing Islamic geometry.
2Each of sixteen equal parts into which something is or may be divided: three sixteenths of an inch...
- Every moment dies a man, every moment one and one sixteenth is born.
- Do you remember when stock used to be priced in sixteenths of a dollar?
- He took off in the last sixteenth of a mile.
