sixteenth part

1. 1.

   one part in sixteen equal parts

   Synonymsone-sixteenthsixteenth

   Broadercommon fraction

Questions about sixteenth part

What does sixteenth part mean?

sixteenth part means "one part in sixteen equal parts".

What is another word for sixteenth part?

Close synonyms include one-sixteenth, sixteenth. 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 part a common word?

sixteenth part 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.