different between snary vs senary

English

Etymology

snare +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Adjective

snary (comparative more snary, superlative most snary)

1. Resembling, or consisting of, snares; tending to entangle; insidious.

   • Spiders in the vault their snary webs have spread.

Anagrams

• N-rays, Ryans, yarns

English

Etymology

From the Latin s?n?rius (“consisting of six each”), from s?n? (“six each, six at a time”) + -?rius (whence the English suffix -ary).

Adjective

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 Bozta?, 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.

Translations

Noun

senary (uncountable)

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

Translations

See also

• nullary (0)
• unary (1)
• binary (2)
• ternary (3)
• quaternary (4)
• quinary (5)
• septenary (7)
• octonary (8)
• novenary (9)
• denary (10)
• undenary (11)
• duodenary (12)
• vigenary (20)
• Appendix:English arities and adicities

Anagrams

• Arneys, Nearys, Neyras, Raneys, arynes, renays, sarney, yarnes, yearns