sixteenth
/siks-teenth/US // ˈsɪksˈtinθ //UK // (ˈsɪksˈtiːnθ) //
第十六,第十六届,第十六次,十六
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
- : being one of 16 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a sixteenth part, especially of one.
- : the sixteenth member of a series.
- : Music. sixteenth note.
Examples
Protecting its most valued informant may well explain why it took decades to bring the Sixteenth Street Church bombers to justice.
Was Rowe involved in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church?
In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.
Virginia now ranks sixteenth in population among the fifty states of the United States.
We will now take the reader to the primitive tobacco plantations of America about the middle of the Sixteenth Century.
In a special alcove was a large number of priceless Fourteenth and Sixteenth Century editions.
Ducking back through the firedoor, he ran quickly up to the sixteenth floor, up past the fifteenth.
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