WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
six′teenth′ note′, [Music.]
  1. Music and Dancea note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note;
    semiquaver. See illus. under note. 
  • 1860–65

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
sixteenth note n
  1. US Canadian a note having the time value of one-sixteenth of a semibreveAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): semiquaver
'sixteenth note' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
semiquaver - demiquaver - sixteenth - sixteenth rest

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