duodecimally

English

Etymology

From duodecimal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

duodecimally (not comparable)

  1. In a duodecimal manner; by twelves.
    • 1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, page 58:
      But time is divided by nature duodecimally, not decimally.
  2. In terms of base twelve.
    • 2010 (written 11↋6), The Duodecimal Bulletin‎[1], volume 58 (written 4χ), number 2, archived from the original on 24 June 2025, page 5:
      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.
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