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sextile
[ sek-stil, -stahyl ]
adjective
- Astronomy. noting or pertaining to the aspect or position of two heavenly bodies when 60° distant from each other.
noun
- Astronomy. a sextile position or aspect.
- Astrology. a sextile position or aspect, conducive to mental stimulation.
- Statistics. a quantile for the special case of six equal proportions.
sextile
/ ˈɛٲɪ /
noun
- statistics one of five actual or notional values of a variable dividing its distribution into six groups with equal frequencies
- astrology astronomy an aspect or position of 60° between two planets or other celestial bodies
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sextile1
Example Sentences
Express your feelings, with Mercury sextile Venus and Uranus.
Brainstorm and reap creative abundance, with Mercury sextile Uranus and Venus.
They move faster than you imagine; for I have got me an argol, and an English almanack, by help of which, in one half hour, I have learned to cant with an indifferent good grace: Conjunction, opposition, trine, square, and sextile, are now no longer bugbears to me, I thank my stars for't.
He will have Sun sextile Jupiter, which gives vision and ideas.
There are five different major aspects: the sextile, when the planets are 60� distant; quartile, when they are 90� distant; trine, when 120� distant; opposition, when 180� distant; and conjunction, when both are in the same longitude.
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