16TH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does 16th mean? 

• 16TH (adjective)
  The adjective 16TH has 1 sense:

1. coming next after the fifteenth in position

  Familiarity information: 16TH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• 16TH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coming next after the fifteenth in position

Synonyms:

16th; sixteenth

Similar:

ordinal (being or denoting a numerical order in a series)

 Context examples 

• The globally averaged land surface temperature was 16th warmest on record for October and the warmest on record for the year to date (January–October).

(Last month tied as 3rd warmest October on record for the globe, NOAA)

On the 16th day of June, 1703, a boy on the top-mast discovered land.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

These were the two men who entered abruptly into our little sitting-room on Tuesday, March the 16th, shortly after our breakfast hour, as we were smoking together, preparatory to our daily excursion upon the moors.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is 1/273.16th of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water, This sets the size of the kelvin unit for temperature differences and defines the thermodynamic temperature of an equilibrium mixture of waters ice-liquid-vapor as 273.16 K, where 0 K is the lowest possible temperature (absolute zero).

(Kelvin, NCI Thesaurus)

On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

On the 16th of April we put in at the Downs.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

On the 16th of February I took leave of his majesty and the court.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)