Sexagesimal /(?)/
Sex·a·ges·i·mal
Sexagesimal
a.
- Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
Phrases & Compounds
- Sexagesimal fractions
- those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
- Sexagesimal arithmetic
- the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
- Sexagesimal scale
- the sexagenary scale.
Sexagesimal
n.
- A sexagesimal fraction.