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单词 sextile
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Definition of sextile in English:

sextile

noun ˈsɛkstɪlˈsɛkstʌɪlˈsɛkstaɪl
mass nounAstrology
  • An aspect of 60° (one sixth of a circle)

    〔占星〕六十度角距,六十度交角

    we find Jupiter in sextile to Neptune
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Tolkien's Sun sextiles Mars and Jupiter and makes a wide orb sextile to Uranus.
    • If the birth was indeed after sunset, the Part of Fortune was in conjunction with the MC and in sextile to the Moon.
    • The sign of the 2nd house is fixed and aspected from the sinister sextile of Jupiter.
    • The positive aspects of trine and sextile are the areas where tension's resolution is found.
    • Since Mercury is solar when matutine and lunar when vespertine, it should surely have different exaltations for the two phases, one in trine to Gemini and the other in sextile to Virgo.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin sextilis, from sextus 'sixth'.

Rhymes

textile

Definition of sextile in US English:

sextile

nounˈsɛkstaɪlˈsekstīl
Astrology
  • An aspect of 60° (one sixth of a circle)

    〔占星〕六十度角距,六十度交角

    the Jupiter–Saturn cycle is now in sextile to its most difficult period

    木星-土星周期现在与其最困难时期成六十度角距。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since Mercury is solar when matutine and lunar when vespertine, it should surely have different exaltations for the two phases, one in trine to Gemini and the other in sextile to Virgo.
    • Tolkien's Sun sextiles Mars and Jupiter and makes a wide orb sextile to Uranus.
    • The sign of the 2nd house is fixed and aspected from the sinister sextile of Jupiter.
    • If the birth was indeed after sunset, the Part of Fortune was in conjunction with the MC and in sextile to the Moon.
    • The positive aspects of trine and sextile are the areas where tension's resolution is found.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin sextilis, from sextus ‘sixth’.

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