sext

The fourth of the seven canonical hours.

The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon.

In the Roman Catholic and Greek churches, in religious houses, and as a devotional office in the Anglican Church, the office of the sixth hour, originally and properly said at midday. See canonical hours, under canonical.

In music:

The interval of a sixth.

In organ-building, a mixture-stop of two ranks separated by a sixth—that is, consisting of a twelfth and a seventeenth.

The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.

The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

A sexual text message.

Any electronic message with sexual context.