SIXTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixty mean? 

• SIXTY (noun)
  The noun SIXTY has 1 sense:

1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

  Familiarity information: SIXTY used as a noun is very rare.

• SIXTY (adjective)
  The adjective SIXTY has 1 sense:

1. being ten more than fifty

  Familiarity information: SIXTY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the product of ten and six

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

60; LX; sixty

Hypernyms ("sixty" is a kind of...):

large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)

• SIXTY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being ten more than fifty

Synonyms:

60; lx; sixty; threescore

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

Buck led the pack, sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A frequency rate of occurrences of something within a period of time equal to sixty minutes.

(Per Hour, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to sixty minutes.

(Milliliter per Kilogram per Hour, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milligram(s) per square meter per period of time equal to sixty seconds.

(Milligram per Square Meter per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per square meter per period of time equal to sixty seconds.

(Milliliter per Square Meter per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to sixty seconds.

(Milliliter per Kilogram per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per square meter per period of time equal to sixty minutes.

(Milliliter per Square Meter per Hour, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in microgram(s) per square meter per period of time equal to sixty seconds.

(Microgram per Square Meter per Minute, NCI Thesaurus)

“If we can win another sixty paces we are safe.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And she would wait, Copperfield, till she was sixty—any age you can mention—for me!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)