Meaning & use
senary
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relating to the number six, or based on a counting system with a base of six.
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Some ancient cultures experimented with a senary numeral system instead of the familiar base ten.
In a senary classification, items are sorted into exactly six categories.
A note on using this word
It belongs to a family of rarely used ordinal-based adjectives, including 'binary' (two), 'ternary' (three), and 'quinary' (five).
Words with a similar meaning
base-sixsextuple
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