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sextant

noun

1 sextant

A unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees.

Roget 244: angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle, cusp, bend; fold etc. 258; notch etc. 257; fork, bifurcation.    ... show more

Roget 247: circularity, roundness; rotundity etc. 249.    circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, ... show more

Polish: sekstans

2 sextant

A measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant.

Dutch: astrolabium, sextant, spiegelboog
Polish: sekstans, sekstant


Moby thesaurus: astrolabe, astronavigation, azimuth circle, azimuth compass, bevel, bevel protractor, bevel square, celestial navigation, chronometer, clinometer, coastwise navigation, consolan, crescent, dead reckoning, fix, goniometer, graphometer, half circle, hemicycle, line of position ... show more.

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