senary

English

**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 Latinate fractional prefix: sextant- Elemental: sextuplet, hextuplet Greek prefix: hexa- Number of musicians: sextet Number of years: sexennium

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

senary (not comparable)

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).
(arithmetic) Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.

Synonym: sextal

of sixth rank or order

senary (uncountable)

numeral system which uses six as the base