Meanings
adverbduodecimally (not comparable)
- not comparableIn a duodecimal manner; by twelves.
But time is divided by nature duodecimally, not decimally.
1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, page 58 - not comparableIn terms of base twelve.
The sizes and names of the accepted Anglo-American standards are retained as faithfully as possible, and these are adjusted by minor changes into a duodecimally unified metric system.
2010 (written 11↋6), The Duodecimal Bulletin, volume 58 (written 4χ), number 2, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025, page 5
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