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Sexagenary

Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexag['e]naire. See Six.] 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.

Sexagenary

Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n.

  1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.

  2. A sexagenarian.
    --Sir W. Scott.

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sexagenary

a. 1 of or pertaining to the number sixty; composed of, or proceeding by sixties 2 sexagenarian n. 1 sexagesimal 2 sexagenarian