'Sexagesimal' definitions:
Definition of 'sexagesimal'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths; "the sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees"
Definition of 'Sexagesimal'
From: GCIDE
- Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, n. A sexagesimal fraction. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sexagesimal'
From: GCIDE
- Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.] Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. [1913 Webster]
- Sexagesimal fractions or Sexagesimal 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 arithmetic, or Sexagenary arithmetic, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
- Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale. [1913 Webster]