Sixteenth
['sɪks'tiːnθ] or ['sɪks'tinθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 16 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the fifteenth in position .
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Definition
(a.) Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth.
(a.) Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixteen; one of sixteen equal parts of one whole.
(n.) The next in order after the fifteenth; the sixth after the tenth.
(n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
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Examples
- This piece of the cross was discovered in the sixteenth century. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Great cast bronze guns of about the same weight as the Hindoo guns were also produced at St. Petersburg, Russia, in the sixteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A form of breech-loading cannon was introduced in the sixteenth century, but the advantageous use of this device is of late invention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Knighthood was becoming a picturesque affectation in the sixteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here we devote a section to certain elementary statements about the movement in men's religious ideas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Observations similar to these were made by Torricelli as early as the sixteenth century. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The largest masses of iron that could be dealt with under those conditions amounted at most (in the sixteenth century) to two or three tons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of these. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- An importation of negro slaves from West Africa also began quite early in the sixteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Jesuits of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took the place of the magicians of the Middle Ages. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The perilous ups and downs of life in sixteenth century France were to show that courage in another light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To ignite the powder the wheel-lock and snap-haunce were invented by the Germans in the sixteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In the Sixteenth Century the study of chemistry, apart from alchemy, began, and some attention was given to its application to the uses of medicine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Every picture of a town of the sixteenth or later centuries shows conspicuously these latter erections for the protection and honour of the town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It performs automatically fifteen-sixteenths of the various movements which ordinarily would be performed by hand on a hand machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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