sixteenth note

1. 1.

   a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note

   Synonymssemiquaver

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Questions about sixteenth note

What does sixteenth note mean?

sixteenth note means "a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note".

What is another word for sixteenth note?

Close synonyms include semiquaver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sixteenth note a common word?

sixteenth note is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.