Senary

Origin

From the Latin sēnārius ("consisting of six each"), from sēnī ("six each”, “six at a time") + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).

Full definition of senary

Adjective

1. Of sixth rank or order.
• 2001, Manish K. Gupta, David G. Glynn, and T. Aaron Gulliver, On Senary Simplex Codes, in Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: proceedings of 14th International Symposium, Serdar BoztaÅŸ, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).

Anagrams

• arynes
• yearns