hexade

English

Etymology

See hexad.

Noun

hexade (plural hexades)

1. A series of six numbers.
   • 1805, James S. Stringham, Observations on the Yellow Fever of America: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 1, page 143:

     You will find the ſtatement to which I allude in the 26th Number, which is in the firſt volume of the ſecond hexade.

   • 1991, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, volume 1, page 1036:

     The chips (groups of 16) are organized in hexades, which have their I/O busses tied in parallel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hexade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Noun

hexade

1. ablative singular of hexas