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 Sex·ag·e·na·ry a.  Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
 Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
 Sexagenary scale, or Sexagesimal scale Math., a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty.  It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

 Sex·a·ges·i·mal a.  Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
 Sexagesimal fractions or Sexagesimal numbers Arith. & Alg., those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, 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.