Associations to the word «Sextic»

Wiktionary

SEXTIC, adjective. (mathematics) Of the sixth degree or order.
SEXTIC, noun. (mathematics) an algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree; a curve describing such an equation or function, especially a quantic of the sixth degree.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke