Semiquaver

A note with half the value of a quaver. One sixteenth of a semibreve. That is, a semiquaver is a sixteenth note.

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Sem"i*qua`ver (?), n. Mus.

A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

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