Noun:

सेक्सटैन्ट, षष्ठक,

sextant शब्द के हिंदी अर्थ का उदाहरण:

सेक्सटैन्ट सर्वेक्षण।

सन् 1731 में षष्ठक (Sextant) तथा सन् 1735 में कालमापी (Chronometer) का आविष्कार होने से नौचालन अधिक विश्वसनीय हो गया तथा अनेक साहसिक सामुद्रिक अभियानों के फलस्वरूप समुद्रतटों, हवाओं और जलधाराओं संबंधी सूचनाएँ एकत्रित हुई।

sextant's Usage Examples:

This was rapidly developed into the modern marine sextant.

It is only after several minutes of sextant observation that the navigator decides that he has witnessed the passing of maximum altitude (i.e.

sextant observation that the navigator decides that he has witnessed the passing of maximum altitude (i.e.

In the case to the side are many instruments including the first sextant, made by John Bird in about 1757.

Zacli published Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 1792; new and improved edition, ibid., 1804), and numerous papers on geographical subjects, particularly on the geographical positions of many towns and places, which he determined on his travels with a sextant.

Measure the altitude of Polaris above the northern horizon, using the sextant.

We have a sextant which I used to use every week for practice.

No further practical advance appears to have been made in the design or construction of the instrument till the year 1723, when John Hadley (best known as the inventor of the sextant) presented to the Royal Society a reflecting telescope of the Newtonian construction, with a metallic speculum of 6-in.

He also invented a reflecting sextant for observing the distance between the moon and the fixed stars, - the same in every essential as the instrument which is still in everyday use at sea under the name of Hadley's quadrant.

Synonyms:

circumference, degree, angular unit, arcdegree,

Antonyms:

immoderation, intense, high, mild, low,