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Word: Sexagesimal
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 17th century: from Latin sexagesimus ‘sixtieth’ + -al
ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛsɪml
relating to or reckoning by sixtieths
Short Definition:relating to or reckoning by sixtieths
Examples:- a decimal system like ours or a sexagesimal system like the Babylonian
relating to the number sixty.
Short Definition:relating to number sixty
Word: Sexagesimal
Speech Type: Noun
ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛsɪml
a fraction based on sixtieths (i.e. with a denominator equal to a power of sixty), as in the divisions of the degree and hour.
Short Definition:fraction based on sixtieths (i. e. with denominator equal to power of sixty), as in divisions of degree and hour
- sexagesimal fraction
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