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sextant

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English

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A nautical sextant

Etymology

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From Latin sextāns.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛk.stənt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛkstənt

Noun

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sextant (plural sextants)

  1. (nautical) A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
    • 1674, Robert Hooke, Animadversions on the Firſt Part of the Machina Coelestis of the […] Aſtronomer Johannes Hevelius […] ‎[1], page 43:
      […] 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; […]
    • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
      I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory.
    • 1981, Saul J. Adelman, Benjamin Adelman, Bound for the Stars, →ISBN, page 227:
      Moskowitz and Devereux have designed a hyperaccurate sextant for interstellar navigation based upon the design of the sextant used by the Apollo astronauts.
  2. (geometry) One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
  3. (dentistry) One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth.
  4. (botany) A radial cell division of segments in three series, a sixth part of the original.

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Czech

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Noun

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sextant m inan

  1. sextant

Declension

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Declension of sextant (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative sextant sextanty
genitive sextantu sextantů
dative sextantu sextantům
accusative sextant sextanty
vocative sextante sextanty
locative sextantu sextantech
instrumental sextantem sextanty

French

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Noun

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sextant m (plural sextants)

  1. sextant

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sextant.

Noun

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sextant m (plural sextanți)

  1. sextant

Declension

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Declension of sextant
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sextant sextantul sextanți sextanții
genitive-dative sextant sextantului sextanți sextanților
vocative sextantule sextanților

Swedish

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Noun

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sextant c

  1. (nautical) a sextant

Declension

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Declension of sextant
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sextant sextants
definite sextanten sextantens
plural indefinite sextanter sextanters
definite sextanterna sextanternas

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