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Definition of Sexagesimal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths. "The sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees"

Definition of Sexagesimal

1. a. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.

2. n. A sexagesimal fraction.

Definition of Sexagesimal

1. Adjective. (mathematics) of, pertaining by, proceeding by, or based on the number sixty ¹

2. Noun. a sexagesimal fraction ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sexagesimal

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Medical Definition of Sexagesimal

1. Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimal fractions or numbers, 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, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties. Sexagesimal scale, the sexagenary scale. Origin: Cf. F. Sexagesimal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Literary usage of Sexagesimal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"sexagesimal CYCLE AND NEN-GO. THE GO-SEKKU, ESPECIALLY THE NEW YEAR, ... These sexagesimal cycles are divided into five series of twelve years each and into ..."

2. The Early Weights and Measures of Mankind by Charles Warren (1913)
"BABYLONIAN AND GREEK sexagesimal SYSTEMS. When the sexagesimal system came into use, and the circumference of circle was divided into 360 instead of 400 ..."

3. The Number-system of Algebra: Treated Theoretically and Historically by Henry Burchard Fine (1890)
"Babylonian or sexagesimal Fractions. The fractional notation of the Babylonian ... Like their notation of integers it is a sexagesimal positional notation. ..."

4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"In like manner, twice 60 times 60, or 7200, was expressed by 1Г ; and so on till he came to 60 times 3600, which was a third sexagesimal, and expressed thus ..."

5. Plane Trigonometry by Sidney Luxton Loney (1896)
"•a CHAPTER I. MEASUREMENT OF ANGLES, sexagesimal, CENTESIMAL, ... In the sexagesimal system of measurement a right angle is divided into 90 equal parts ..."

6. Plane and Sperical Trigonometry (with Five-place Tables): A Text-book for by Robert Edouard Moritz (1913)
"sexagesimal Measure of Angles. It is familiar to all that different units of measures may be employed in the measurement of a given magnitude. ..."

7. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"It is easy to pass from this mode of measurement to the sexagesimal If I be the circular measure of an angle, the angle contains - . ..."

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