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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexag[82]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]: | |
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Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag[82]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, [frac1x60], [frac1x3600], [frac1x216000]; -- 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, n. A sexagesimal fraction. | |
