sixty-fourth

American  

[siks-tee-fawrth, -fohrth] / ˈsɪks tiˈfɔrθ, -ˈfoʊrθ /

adjective

1. next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.

2. being one of 64 equal parts.

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noun

1. a sixty-fourth part, especially of one (1/64).

2. the sixty-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

Maynard’s second husband, Jim Barringer, died of cancer in the small hours of a June morning, just days after his sixty-fourth birthday, as she lay with him in their bed.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2019

But they couldn't resist dropping a delicious, last detail: "The U.S. presidential race was essentially in chaos. And October 7 was Vladimir Putin's sixty-fourth birthday."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2018

Sections of the falcon’s eye are used to represent fractions: one-half, one-quarter and so on, up to one sixty-fourth.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2010

The merchant banker's prime asset is his experience in sizing up situations, measuring men and calculating risks down to one sixty-fourth of 1 %.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones