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Definition of Sixteenths
1. sixteenth [n] - See also: sixteenth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sixteenths
Literary usage of Sixteenths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1879)
"The same weight compressed one piece of catalpa to seven-sixteenths, ... White pine
was compressed to five-sixteenths; Norway to six-sixteenths; ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic...: Combining the Useful Properties of by George Leonard (1841)
"How many eighths of a dollar are 2 sixteenths ? What then is the value, in cents,
... What is the value, in cents, of 3 sixteenths of a dollar ? 3. ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic...: Combining the Useful Properties of by George Leonard (1841)
"How many eighths of a dollar are 2 sixteenths ? What then is the value, in cents,
... What is the value, in cents, of 3 sixteenths of a dollar ? 3. ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic by George Leonard (1842)
"How many eighths of a dollar are 2 sixteenths ? What then is the value, in cents,
... What is the value, in cents, of 3 sixteenths of a dollar ? 3. ..."
5. The Stone-Millis Arithmetics by John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis (1914)
"EXERCISES IN HALVES, FOURTHS, EIGHTHS, AND sixteenths 1. Look at the figure and
tell how many 4ths in £. 2. How many 8ths in J ? How many 8ths in £ ? 3. ..."
6. Hamilton's Essentials of Arithmetic by Samuel Hamilton (1920)
"Fourths, Eighths, and sixteenths Oral Work l. Show by the diagram how many eighths
are equal to one fourth; how many sixteenths are equal to one eighth; ..."
7. Marine Engineer and Naval Architect (1894)
"5-74 Mr. Milton explains that Lloyd's rule contains the expression (t — 2), where
t is the thickness in sixteenths of an inch, and that this two-sixteenths ..."
8. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"General form, broadly oval, fourteen-sixteenths of an inch long and eleven-sixteenths
of an inch thick; very even in size, remarkable for the peculiar pale ..."
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