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ˈsexagene Math.
Also in L. form.
[ad. mod.L. sexāgēna fem. sing. f. L. pl. sexāgēnī, -æ, -a: see prec.]
A quantity or number multiplied by sixty or a power of sixty; an arc of sixty degrees. first sexagene, second, etc. sexagene: the first, second, etc. stage in ascending order of a sexagesimal scale of numeration or measurement.
1570Dee Math. Pref. *ij, The Astronomers, for spede..haue deuised a peculier maner of orderyng numbers, about theyr circular motions, by Sexagenes, and Sexagesmes. 1597Blundevil Exerc. i. (ed. 2) 37 In those Tables are often vsed two kinds of denominations,..Sexagenæ and..Sexagesimæ,..the denomination Sexagenæ being set ouer any number doth signifie that the vnite of the Integrum is multiplyed by 60. But the denomination Sexagesimæ doth signifie that the vnite of the Integrum is diuided by 60. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 233 Bring all the Circles and Signs, or Sexagenae thereof, into Degrees. 1694tr. Oughtred's Key Math. 32, 53{pp}·09′ 34°· i.e. 53 second Sexagenes; 9 first Sexagenes; and 34 Unites. 1709V. Mandey Syst. Math., Arith. (1729) 77 Days also are accounted in Sexagenes, so that 60 Days make one Prime Sexagene: and sixty Prime Sexagenes, or 3600 Days makes one Second Sexagene, etc. 1728[see sexagenary B]. |