From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sexagesimal \Sex'a*ges"i*mal\, adjective [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.] Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
{Sexagesimal fractions} or {Sexagesimal 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 arithmetic}, or {Sexagenary arithmetic}, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
{Sexagesimal scale} (Math.), the sexagenary scale.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sexagesimal \Sex'a*ges"i*mal\, noun A sexagesimal fraction.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sexagesimal
adjective: of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths; "the sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees"
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