sextant
Collocations
4ADJ.
crude, expert, interstellar, used
VERB + SEXTANT
design, designed, hyperaccurate, using
SEXTANT + NOUN
navigation, octant, sun
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
[…] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […]
I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory.
One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth.
A radial cell division of segments in three series, a sixth part of the original.
name
The constellation Sextans.
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6[…] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with
WiktionaryI took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory.
WiktionaryMoskowitz and Devereux have designed a hyperaccurate sextant for interstellar navigation based upon the design of the sextant used by the Apollo astronauts.
WiktionaryTycho Brahe used only a compass and a sextant to observe the stars.
Tatoeba · #3958586He's an expert with a sextant.
Tatoeba · #8290944Using a sextant, the sun and a watch to guide him, Amundsen made the 3,000-kilometer round-trip journey from a basecamp in Antarctica in 99 days.
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