senary

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English

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English numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: six
    Ordinal: sixth
    Latinate ordinal: senary
    Adverbial: six times
    Multiplier: sixfold
    Latinate multiplier: sextuple
    Distributive: sextuply
    Germanic collective: half-dozen, sixsome
    Collective of n parts: sextuplet, hextuplet
    Greek or Latinate collective: hexad
    Greek collective prefix: hexa-
    Latinate collective prefix: sexa-
    Fractional: sixth
    Elemental: sextuplet, hextuplet
    Greek prefix: hexa-
    Number of musicians: sextet
    Number of years: sexennium

Etymology

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From the Latin sēnārius (consisting of six each), from sēnī (six each, six at a time) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).

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Adjective

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senary (not comparable)

  1. Of sixth rank or order.
    • 2001, Manish K. Gupta, David G. Glynn, and T. Aaron Gulliver, On Senary Simplex Codes, in Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: proceedings of 14th International Symposium, Serdar Boztaş, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112
      In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).
  2. (arithmetic) Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
    The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.
    Synonym: sextal

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Noun

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senary (uncountable)

  1. (arithmetic) The numeral system which uses six as the base.

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