It means a distance that if you walk it sixteen times,
your whole walk adds up to 1 inch all together.
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There are 25.4 millimetres in one inch. Therefore, one sixteenth of an inch is equal to 1/16 x 25.4 = 1.5875 millimetres.
There are 2.54 centimetres in one inch. Therefore, one sixteenth of an inch is equal to 1/16 x 2.54 = 0.15875 centimetres.
4.762 mm
The word inch comes from the Latin word "uncia" meaning one twelfth part. The word ounce, which is used to mean one sixteenth of a pound, is derived from the same word.
3/4 = 12/16, so there are twelve sixteenth-inches in three-quarters of an inch.