Associations to the word «Sexagesimal»

Wiktionary

SEXAGESIMAL, adjective. (mathematics) of, pertaining by, proceeding by, or based on the number sixty
SEXAGESIMAL, noun. A sexagesimal fraction

Dictionary definition

SEXAGESIMAL, adjective. Of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths; "the sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley