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Sexagenary   Listen
adjective
Sexagenary  adj.  Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
Sexagenary scale, or Sexagesimal scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.





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... division by five &c. 98; quinquesection &c.; decimation; fifth &c. V. decimate; quinquesect. Adj. quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite; quinqevalent, pentavalent; quinquarticular[obs3]; octifid[obs3]; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal[obs3], sexagenary[obs3]; hundredth, ...
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