Definitions for: Sexagesimal

Webster (1913) Definition: Sex`a*ges"i*mal, a. [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.]
Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.

Sexagesimal fractions or 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, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of
computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.

Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale.

Sex`a*ges"i*mal, n.
A sexagesimal fraction.

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