'Sixteenth note' definitions:

Definition of 'sixteenth note'

(from WordNet)
noun
A musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note [syn: sixteenth note, semiquaver]

Definition of 'Sixteenth note'

From: GCIDE
  • Sixteenth \Six"teenth`\, a. [From Sixteen: cf. AS. sixte['o]?a.]
  • 1. Sixth after the tenth; next in order after the fifteenth. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Constituting or being one of sixteen equal parts into which anything is divided. [1913 Webster]
  • Sixteenth note (Mus.), the sixteenth part of a whole note; a semiquaver. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sixteenth note'

From: GCIDE
  • Semiquaver \Sem"i*qua`ver\ (s[e^]m"[i^]*kw[=a]`v[~e]r), n. (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note. [1913 Webster]