Vocabulary : Sextic to Sextonry
Sextic : Of the sixth degree or order. ;; A quantic of the sixth degree.Sextile : Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. ;; The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Sextillion : 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.
Sexto : A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
Sextodecimo : 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. ;; 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.
