sexagesimal
Meaning of sexagesimal
- relating to or reckoning by sixtieths.
a decimal system like ours or a sexagesimal system like the Babylonian
- relating to the number sixty.
noun
a fraction based on sixtieths (i.e. with a denominator equal to a power of sixty), as in the divisions of the degree and hour.
late 17th century: from Latin sexagesimus ‘sixtieth’ + -al.
Information about sexagesimal
- The plural form of sexagesimal is: sexagesimals.
- Languages in which sexagesimal is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of sexagesimal
sex-a-ges-i-mal
- It consists of 5 syllables and 11 chars.
- sexagesimal is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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