different between fraction vs sexagesimal

English

Etymology

From Middle English fraccioun (“a breaking”), from Anglo-Norman, Old French fraction, from Medieval Latin fractio (“a fragment, portion”), from earlier Latin fractio (“a breaking, a breaking into pieces”), from fractus (English fracture), past participle of frangere (“to break”) (whence English frangible), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reg- (English break).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /?f?æk.??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

fraction (plural fractions)

1. A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part.
2. (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers, the numerator and the denominator, usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar.
3. (chemistry) A component of a mixture, separated by fractionation.
4. In a eucharistic service, the breaking of the host.
5. A small amount.
6. The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fraction.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

fraction (third-person singular simple present fractions, present participle fractioning, simple past and past participle fractioned)

1. To divide or break into fractions.

Translations

References

• “fraction” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “fraction”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "fraction" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• Croftian, factor in, infocrat

French

Etymology

From Old French fraction, borrowed from Latin fractio, fractionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ak.sj??/

Noun

fraction f (plural fractions)

1. fraction (small amount)

2. (mathematics) fraction

3. fraction, breakup

Derived terms

• barre de fraction
• fractionnaire
• fractionner

Related terms

• fracture

Further reading

• “fraction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• fronçait

English

Etymology

From Latin sexagesimalis, from sexagesimus (“sixtieth”), from sexaginta (“sixty”).

Adjective

sexagesimal (not comparable)

1. (arithmetic) Of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or based on the number sixty.

Translations

Noun

sexagesimal (plural sexagesimals)

1. A sexagesimal fraction.

German

Etymology

From Latin sexagesimalis, from sexagesimus (“sixtieth”), from sexaginta (“sixty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?z?ksa?ezi?ma?l]
• Hyphenation: se?xa?ge?si?mal

Adjective

sexagesimal (not comparable)

1. sexagesimal, based on the number sixty

Declension

Synonyms

• hexagesimal
• auf die Grundzahl 60 bezogen (descriptive):

Related terms

• Sexagesimalbruch, Sexagesimalstelle, Sexagesimalsystem, Sexagesimalzahl

Further reading

• “sexagesimal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “sexagesimal” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French sexagésimal.

Adjective

sexagesimal m or n (feminine singular sexagesimal?, masculine plural sexagesimali, feminine and neuter plural sexagesimale)

1. sexagesimal

Declension

Spanish

Adjective

sexagesimal (plural sexagesimales)

1. sexagesimal