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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