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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. 1
    • : next after the fifteenth; being the ordinal number for 16.
    • : being one of 16 equal parts.
n.名词 noun
  1. 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.