sexadecimal

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adjective

sexa·​decimal

¦seksə+

: of or relating to sixteen or sixteenths : proceeding in computation by sixteens : expressed in the scale of sixteens

sexadecimal

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noun

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: a sixteenth part

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

sexa- (as in sexagesimal) + decimal

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