'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]