noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.

   "The semisextile, or twelfth part of a circle , is a distance of thirty degrees in the zodiac […]"

Example

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"The semisextile, or twelfth part of a circle , is a distance of thirty degrees in the zodiac […]"

Etymology

From semi- + sextile.

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