Sexagesimal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.]
     Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
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     {Sexagesimal fractions} or {Sexagesimal 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 arithmetic}, or {Sexagenary arithmetic}, the
        method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by
        sixties.
  
     {Sexagesimal scale} (Math.), the sexagenary scale.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, n.
     A sexagesimal fraction.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sexagesimal
       adj : of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths; "the
             sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees"