senary
English
Etymology
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English suffix -ary).
Adjective
senary (not comparable)
- 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 Boztaş, 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).
- 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 Boztaş, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112
- (arithmetic) Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
- The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.
Translations
of sixth rank or order
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Noun
senary (uncountable)
- (arithmetic) The numeral system which uses six as the base.
Translations
numeral system which uses six as the base
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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