"sixteenth" in the noun sense
1. sixteenth
position 16 in a countable series of things
2. one-sixteenth, sixteenth, sixteenth part
one part in sixteen equal parts
"sixteenth" in the adjective sense
1. sixteenth, 16th
coming next after the fifteenth in position
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