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Sixteenth is the ordinal number for 16 — it tells you the position in a list, like 'the sixteenth day of the month' or 'she came sixteenth in the race'. It's also used as a fraction: one sixteenth means one part out of sixteen equal parts (1/16).
第十六（順序）；十六分之一（分數）
組成six + teen + -th (ordinal ending).
同家族的字
- sixteensixteenth is just the ordinal (ranking) form of sixteen
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sixteenthadj/ˌsɪksˈtiːnθ/
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The ordinal form of the number sixteen.
- […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy […]
sixteenthnoun/ˌsɪksˈtiːnθ/
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One of sixteen equal parts of a whole.
- A sixteenth of 320 is 20.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。