Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
senary en · ADJ
Pronunciation
/ˈsiːnəɹi/
Etymology
From the Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of senarius.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of sixth rank or order.
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
(not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.
ca senària (of sixth rank or order) · ca senari (of sixth rank or order) · fr sénaire (of sixth rank or order) · ru шестеричный (of sixth rank or order)
senary en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ˈsiːnəɹi/
Etymology
From the Latin sēnārius (“consisting of six each”), from sēnī (“six each, six at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary). Doublet of senarius.
Meanings
(uncountable) The numeral system which uses six as the base.
de Sechsersystem (numeral system which uses six as the base) · fr système sénaire (numeral system which uses six as the base) · pt sistema senario (numeral system which uses six as the base) · ko 육진법 (numeral system which uses six as the base) · ja 六進法 (numeral system which uses six as the base)