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Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Sextile :: Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

Sextolet :: Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.

Sextillion :: Sextillion (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration..

Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

Sextic :: Sextic (a.) Of the sixth degree or order.

Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (a.) Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume..

Radius :: Radius (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

February :: February (n.) The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days..

Sacristan :: Sacristan (n.) An officer of the church who has the care of the utensils or movables, and of the church in general; a sexton..

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

Sextans :: Sextans (n.) A Roman coin, the sixth part of an as..

Sextetto :: Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Sextet :: Sextet (n.) Alt. of Sextett.

Sextary :: Sextary (n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint..

Sextodecimo :: Sextodecimo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16¡..

Sexto :: Sexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

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