senary

adj
/ˈsiːnəɹi/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from sēnārius

Definitions

  1. Of sixth rank or order.

    • In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).
  2. Of, pertaining to, or based on six.

    • The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.
  3. The numeral system which uses six as the base.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for senary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA