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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Sexagesimal

· Sex·a·ges·i·mal · IPA /ˌsɛk.səˈdʒɛ.sɪ.məl/
01 a. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
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    Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
Phrases & compounds
Sexagesimal fractions — those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
Sexagesimal arithmetic — the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
Sexagesimal scale — the sexagenary scale.
02 n. A sexagesimal fraction.
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    A sexagesimal fraction.