| 单词 | sexagesimal |
| 释义 | sexagesimal (once / 214897 pages) adj WORD FAMILY sexagesimal USAGE EXAMPLESAlthough it is no longer used for general computation, the sexagesimal system is still used to measure angles, geographic coordinates and time. Salon(Jan 19, 2014) Minutes and seconds derive from the sexagesimal partitions of the degree introduced by Babylonian astronomers. Scientific American(Dec 31, 2011) Hypsicles was the first Greek writer who is known to have used sexagesimal fractions,—the degrees, minutes, and seconds of our angle measure. Smith, David Eugene, The Teaching of Geometry(2011) adj of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths the sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees |
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