'Sexagenary scale' definitions:

Definition of 'Sexagenary scale'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]