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Definition of One-sixtieth
1. Noun. One part in sixty equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of One-sixtieth
Literary usage of One-sixtieth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"... is equal to sixty seconds, or one-sixtieth part of a decree. In the computation
of time, a minute is equal to sixty seconds, or the sixtieth part of an ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Much benefit may be had by the hypodermic use of strychnine, a daily injection
beginning with one-sixtieth and gradually increasing it to a full ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"Experiment 16 is rather antagonistic to this view, one- sixtieth of a grain of
strychnine having been injected without arresting the course of the poison ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1890)
"Ordinary fire is one-sixtieth (in the Muslim hell it is one-seventieth) of the
heat of the fire of Gehinnom, which is one-sixtieth of the heat of the fire ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"(2) Then ensues a sudden reaction, lasting also for about one-sixtieth of a
second, in virtue of which the retina becomes partially insensible to renewed or ..."
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