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sext

WordNet
Interesting fact
As specified by the Christian church, the canonical hours are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
  1. (n) sext
    the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
  1. Sext
    (R.C.Ch) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sext
    In the Roman Catholic and Greek churches, in religious houses, and as a devotional office in the Anglican Church, the office of the sixth hour, originally and properly said at midday. See canonical hours, under canonical.
  2. (n) sext
    In music:
  3. (n) sext
    The interval of a sixth.
  4. (n) sext
    In organ-building, a mixture-stop of two ranks separated by a sixth—that is, consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Sext
    sekst (eccles.) the office of the sixth hour, originally said at midday:
  2. (n) Sext
    sekst (mus.) the interval of a sixth
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. sexta, fem. of sextus, sixtt, fr. sex, six: cf. F. sexte,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. sextus, sixth—sex, six.

Usage in the news

Among the racier entries are "f-bomb" and "sexting". cnn.com

"Energy Drink," "Life Coach" and "Sexting" are also represented this year. hollywoodreporter.com

I Don't Believe People Are Using My App For Sexting. sfgate.com

Board member accused of "sexting" student. fox21news.com

0An Ellicott School District board member has been arrested for allegedly sexting a 14-year-old boy. fox21news.com

Turns out many of the phones still had texts, sexts, and photos on them. 963theblaze.com

Looking the other way when it comes to teen sexting is essentially endorsing child pornography. yorkdispatch.com

Dictionary 's new words: Sexting, man cave. kesq.com

Some are concerned it might be a vehicle for sexting. deseretnews.com

Lindenhust man arrested for sexting 13-year-old girl. abclocal.go.com

Nassau County police arrested a Lindenhurst man in Massapequa Saturday night for allegedly sexting with a 13-year-old girl. abclocal.go.com

Michael Moore on gun laws, sexting as flirting top today's must-reads. mlive.com

Board member accused of "sexting" student. fox21news.com

A new study finds sexting is more prevalent among teenagers and sexters are more likely to be sexually active. tvq.com

University of Texas researchers studied the sexting habits of nearly 950 teenagers. tvq.com

Usage in scientific papers

Sext keV, since it corresponds to a constant-entropy (i.e. adiabatic) dynamics.
The phase-diagram of the IGM and the entropy floor of groups and clusters: are clusters born warm?

Thus, Tad is the temperature reached by some adiabatic gas falling from the outer warm IGM into the cluster, with an initial entropy Sext acquired in a larger-scale filament.
The phase-diagram of the IGM and the entropy floor of groups and clusters: are clusters born warm?

The solid line is Sext = Sw , the dotted line Sext = Ssub while the lower dashed line is the mean defined in eq.(8).
The phase-diagram of the IGM and the entropy floor of groups and clusters: are clusters born warm?

However, we see that the case Sext = Ssub provides an entropy level which is too small.
The phase-diagram of the IGM and the entropy floor of groups and clusters: are clusters born warm?

The temperature - bolometric luminosity relation of clusters at z = 0, using Sext = Sw (solid line), Sext = Ssub (dotted line) or the mean Sext defined as in eq.(8) (lower dashed line).
The phase-diagram of the IGM and the entropy floor of groups and clusters: are clusters born warm?

Usage in literature

I think it is, Edwardi sext. "Essay on Man Moral Essays and Satires" by Alexander Pope

James the subprior, and Brother John and I had spent our day from sext onward on Hankley, cutting bracken for the cow-houses. "Sir Nigel" by Arthur Conan Doyle

As, for instance, Prime, Tierce, Sexte, Nones, Matins, Angelus, High Mass, Vespers, Complines, etc. "The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son" by The Earl of Chesterfield

Lay open at 'Sext,' and there, too, lay with its three marks at the Daily Lessons, the Bishop's Bible, and the Common Prayer beside it. "The Chaplet of Pearls" by Charlotte M. Yonge

Late in the year (41) Antony formed a league with Sext. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2" by Various

It cannot make any difference whether you have the key now or before Sext. "The Altar Steps" by Compton MacKenzie

Mea galea, Sexte, est in casa mea. "Latin for Beginners" by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

Then, when Sext was ended, all the fathers meditated, and Durtal caught a look of pity from the prior, who turned a little towards his bench. "En Route" by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

By a decree inserted in Le Sexte, Boniface VIII. "The Popes and Science" by James J. Walsh

Genevieve ringing the Sexts. "The Chevalier d'Auriac" by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats