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单词 sexagesm
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sexagesmn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s sexagesme, 1600s–1700s sexagesm.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin sexāgēsima.
Etymology: Ultimately < classical Latin sexāgēsima sixtieth part (see Sexagesima n.): compare discussion of β. forms at sexagesime n. and adj. Compare sexagene n.
Mathematics. Obsolete.
= sexagesimal fraction n. at sexagesimal adj. and n. Compounds. Also: the sixtieth part of a degree, a minute of arc. Cf. sexagesime n. 2.
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1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *ij The Astronomers, for spede..haue deuised a peculier maner of orderyng numbers, about theyr circular motions, by Sexagenes, and Sexagesmes.
1635 H. Gellibrand Disc. Variation Magneticall Needle 13 The differ. is 110008 [the angle] MZB..which converted into sexagesmes is 11 gr. 0 min., 0 Sec.
1685 J. Wallis Treat. Algebra vii. 18 For 1/ 7, (because this cannot be exactly expressed in Sexagesms) they would put 8′.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 470 The Declination of all needles (especially if touched by different Magnets) is different a few Sexagesms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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