sixtieth
Speech parts
1. sixtieth - Noun
2. sixtieth - Adjective
3. sixtieth - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Next in order after the fifty-ninth.
Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.
The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.
The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.
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Examples
A minim is always a sixtieth part of a fluidrachm regardless of the character of the substance, while a drop varies from a forty-fifth to a two-hundred-and-fiftieth part, according to the surface tension of the fluid."
On 26 July 2012, to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Evita's death, notes were issued in a value of 100 pesos.
In an article commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the character, The Guardian wrote, "Batman is a figure blurred by the endless reinvention that is modern mass culture.
A second of arc, one sixtieth of this amount, is about 100 feet or roughly 30 meters.
He wrote another historical drama in 1908 after the Royal Theatre convinced him to put on a new play for its sixtieth birthday.
Historically, it was defined as one sixtieth of the distance between two parallels of latitude separated by one degree.