Sex (disambiguation)

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Sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into male and female reproductive roles.

It may also refer to:

From Latin sex "six" (see also numerical prefix)

  • Sex, an abbreviation for the constellation Sextans
  • Sextet: a group of six musicians
  • Sexagenarian: a person who is six decades old
  • Sextuplet: six children born at the same time to the same mother
  • Sexdactyly: a genetic condition which causes people to have 6 fingers instead of the usual 5
  • Sextant, a measuring instrument in the shape of 1/6 of a circle
  • Sextilis, the sixth month of the early Roman calendar

acronyms:

  • "SEX (computing), an assembly language mnemonic often used for the "Sign EXtend" machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other computer architectures

geography:

[edit] See also

  • Sexus (a disambiguation page)