SEXAGESIMALLY

Etymology

Adverb

sexagesimally (not comparable)

In the sexagesimal system.

Source: Wiktionary


SEXAGESIMAL

Sex`a*ges"i*mal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. sexagésimal.]

Definition: 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.

Sex`a*ges"i*mal, n.

Definition: A sexagesimal fraction.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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