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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
semiquaver
noun
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▪ The rapid bowed quavers of the former become the rapid staccato semiquavers of the latter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semiquaver

Semiquaver \Sem"i*qua`ver\ (s[e^]m"[i^]*kw[=a]`v[~e]r), n. (Mus.) A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixteenth note.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
semiquaver

"sixteenth-note," 1570s, from semi- + quaver (n.).

Wiktionary
semiquaver

n. (context music English) A sixteenth note, drawn as a crotchet with two tails.

WordNet
semiquaver

n. a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note [syn: sixteenth note]

Usage examples of "semiquaver".

The tunes and the themes were all hurried, sketched with not a semiquaver more than necessary, the page balanced by a hand or a knee, yet the music was always captured with ease and precision.

I want a semiquaver figure for the violins, varied and repeated throughout the movement.

Alison is accepting when he has problems keeping to the beat and when he plays semiquavers as quavers.

Alison is accepting when he has problems keeping to the beat and when he plays semiquavers as quavers.