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sixteenth note

noun

, Music.
  1. a note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note; semiquaver.


sixteenth note

noun

  1. music a note having the time value of one-sixteenth of a semibreve Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)semiquaver
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Origin of sixteenth note1

First recorded in 1860–65

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