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sexagesimal

sexagesimal


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sexagesimal  \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\,  n. 
  A  sexagesimal  fraction. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sexagenary  \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\,  a.  [L.  sexagenarius  fr  sexageni 
  sixty  each  akin  to  sexaginta  sixty,  sex  six:  cf 
  sexag['e]naire.  See  {Six}.] 
  Pertaining  to  or  designating,  the  number  sixty;  poceeding  by 
  sixties;  sixty  years  old 
 
  {Sexagenary  arithmetic}.  See  under  {Sexagesimal}. 
 
  {Sexagenary},  or  {Sexagesimal},  {scale}  (Math.),  a  scale  of 
  numbers  in  which  the  modulus  is  sixty.  It  is  used  in 
  treating  the  divisions  of  the  circle. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sexagesimal  \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  sexag['e]simal.] 
  Pertaining  to  or  founded  on  the  number  sixty. 
 
  {Sexagesimal  fractions}  or  {numbers}  (Arith.  &  Alg.),  those 
  fractions  whose  denominators  are  some  power  of  sixty;  as 
  1/60,  1/3600,  1/216000;  --  called  also  {astronomical 
  fractions},  because  formerly  there  were  no  others  used  in 
  astronomical  calculations. 
 
  {Sexagesimal},  or  {Sexagenary},  {arithmetic},  the  method  of 
  computing  by  the  sexagenary  scale,  or  by  sixties. 
 
  {Sexagesimal  scale}  (Math.),  the  sexagenary  scale.