Sextate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɛksteɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sextate is a verb meaning (rare) Reduce by one sixth.
Meaning
(rare) Reduce by one sixth.
More Meanings
- (rare) Reduce to one sixth.
- (rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
- (rare, physics) sixfold degenerate
- (rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines
Example Sentences
De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.
Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.
By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.
The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.
Word Forms
- sextates
- sextating
- sextated
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