1. Coming next after the fifteenth in position
   - 16th

1. Position 16 in a countable series of things
   "He celebrated his sixteenth birthday last week"
    
2. One part in sixteen equal parts
   "The mechanic adjusted the wrench by one-sixteenth of an inch"; "The land was divided into sixteenth parts among the heirs";
   - one-sixteenth, sixteenth part

Derived forms: sixteenths

See also: ordinal

Type of: common fraction, rank, simple fraction, vulgar fraction [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Sixteenth