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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni
     sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf.
     sexag['e]naire. See Six.]
     Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by
     sixties; sixty years old.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n.
     1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A sexagenarian. --Sir W. Scott.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni
     sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf.
     sexag['e]naire. See Six.]
     Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by
     sixties; sixty years old.
  
     Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
  
     Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of
        numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in
        treating the divisions of the circle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n.
     1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.
  
     2. A sexagenarian. --Sir W. Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.]
     Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
  
     Sexagesimal fractions or numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those
        fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as,
        1/60, 1/3600, 1/216000; -- called also astronomical
        fractions, because formerly there were no others used in
        astronomical calculations.
  
     Sexagesimal, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of
        computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
  
     Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sexagenary
     a.
     1 Of or related to the number sixty, ''particularly:''
     2 # contain sixty years.
     3 # (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): lasting or
  aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.
     4 # (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60.
     n.
     1 (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60 numeration.
     2 (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): a
  sixty-year-old.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  sexagenary
     a.
     1 Of or related to the number sixty, ''particularly:''
     2 # contain sixty years.
     3 # (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): lasting or
  aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.
     4 # (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60.
     n.
     1 (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60 numeration.
     2 (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): a
  sixty-year-old.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  sexagenary
     a.
     1 Of or related to the number sixty, ''particularly:''
     2 # contain sixty years.
     3 # (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): lasting or
  aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.
     4 # (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60.
     n.
     1 (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60 numeration.
     2 (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): a
  sixty-year-old.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  sexagenary
     a.
     1 Of or related to the number sixty, ''particularly:''
     2 # contain sixty years.
     3 # (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): lasting or
  aged sixty years; sixty-year-old.
     4 # (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60.
     n.
     1 (lb en math astronomy now rare) (synonym of en sexagesimal
  nodot=a): base-60 numeration.
     2 (lb en now rare) (synonym of en sexagenarian nodot=a): a
  sixty-year-old.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Sexagenary /sˈɛkseɪdʒnəɹi/
  متعلق بالرقم 60

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sexagenary /sˈɛkseɪdʒnəɹi/
  sechzig…

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  sexagenary /sˈɛkseɪdʒnəɹi/
  1. hatvan részbôl álló
  2. hatvanas
  3. hatvan éves

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  sexagenary /sˈɛkseɪdʒnəɹi/
  1. altmış, altmışar
  2. altmış yaşındaki
  3. altmışlık kimse.

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 六十的

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