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sexagenary |
3 definitions found 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]: Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions. 2. A sexagenarian. --Sir W. Scott. 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.
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