- 1. a. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Source: opted
- 2. n. A sexagesimal fraction. Source: opted
- 3. adj. of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths Source: wordnet
- 4. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimal fractions or numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, 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. A sexagesimal fraction. Source: webster
- 5. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimalfractions or numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whosedenominators are some power of sixty; as, astronomical fractions,because formerly there were no others used in astronomicalcalculations.-- Sexagesimal, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of computingby the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.-- Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale. Source: adambom
- 6. a. of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths Source: ecdict
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