Examples of 'sextant' in a sentence
Meaning of "sextant"
A sextant is a navigational instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. It is commonly used in nautical navigation to determine a ship's latitude and longitude
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- A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
- 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. The front sextants go from canine to canine, and there are sextants on the right and left of these. See w:Periodontal examination.
- The constellation Sextans.
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I suppose a sextant is all you need anyway.
Any more than we will need sextant.
Samuel had the sextant all along.
The sextant consists of two primary assemblies.
Just worry about getting us to the sextant.
I have to get this sextant dry first.
Sextant is fortunate to offer you this property in exclusivity.
He can navigate and use the sextant.
The sextant is the unsung hero of celestial navigation.
I do not suppose you have a sextant handy.
The sextant is used to determine latitude.
And stability of the octant and sextant.
This sextant is built after an original.
Shooting the midday sun with a sextant.
Point the sextant to the horizon.
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Observations for time with the sextant.
Included sextant locations this time.
Hidden within the design of a sextant.
The sextant in the artificial horizon.
You are the one who broke the sextant.
The sextant replaced the astrolabe.
He can navigate and use a sextant.
The sextant procedure is strictly a tension band stabilization.
The astrolabe was replaced by the sextant.
There was a sextant on her boat.
Flamsteed himself made a giant sextant.
Like the sextant here.
But had not learned the use of a sextant.
Diagram of a marine sextant used for observing heavenly bodies.
Not the way you normally read a sextant.
A sextant is an ancient navigational tool.
The number is the angle of the sextant arm.
I dropped my sextant in the stew.
Let me check it through the sextant.
Radio sextant type system.
There must be something wrong with the sextant.
The sextant was developed especially for making such measurements.
He has no idea how to use a sextant.
Sextant seen by its agents.
They hollowed out the book so the sextant.
About the sextant angles.
And then just look through the sextant.
I took out the sextant and got two shoots.
Support for the various components of the sextant.
The lodestar upon whom the sextant of my heart is set.
Helen practising the use of a sextant.
The sextant in my cabin.
The adventurers must find the magical sextant.
I made a crude sextant and took a noon sight on the sun.
This is a truly beautiful sextant.
