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aquarobics (iou) and Sexagesimal (medicine)


aquarobics (iou)



aquarobics noun pl. (treated as sing. or pl.). L20.
[Blend of AQUA- and AEROBICS.]
(A system of) aerobic exercises performed in water.
? Proprietary name in the US.

Sexagesimal (medicine)


sexagesimal


Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.

<mathematics> Sexagesimal fractions or numbers, 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.

<mathematics> Sexagesimal scale, the sexagenary scale.

Origin: Cf. F. Sexagesimal.

Source: Websters Dictionary