English Dictionary

sext

/sɛkst/

noun

(historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight. / (Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour. / (music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

The sext was traditionally used to mark the time of noon.

意味（1）

(historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

意味（2）

(Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.

意味（3）

(music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.

意味（4）

(music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.