Noun:

ਸੇਕਸਟੈਂਟ,

sextants's Usage Examples:

font table of a 2×3 mosaic matrix of so-called squots (square dots) or sextants.

Sectors with other central angles are sometimes given special names, these include quadrants (90°), sextants (60°) and octants (45°), which come from the sector being one 4th, 6th or 8th part of a full circle, respectively.

Rust made a variety of navigational instruments, including octants and sextants.

Northeast Portland is one of the sextants of Portland, Oregon.

a simple device to measure angles, later replaced by the more precise sextants; in surveying (and scientific fields that use surveying techniques, such.

needed] Professional sextants use a click-stop degree measure and a worm adjustment that reads to a minute, 1/60 of a degree.

for various sextants.

a two-foot transit instrument, three Hadley sextants, an achromatic heliometer, a two-foot achromatic refractor, a Gregorian reflector and many clocks.

sometimes given special names, such as quadrants (90°), sextants (60°), and octants (45°), which come from the sector being one 4th, 6th or 8th part of a full.

instruments as a filter, as in the use of smoked glass in cross-staves and sextants, allowing operators to make sun sightings without damaging their eyesight.

Examples are calipers and micrometers to measure to fine tolerances, on sextants for navigation, on theodolites.

Southeast Portland is one of the sextants of Portland, Oregon.

sextants are devices depicting a sixth of a circle, used primarily for measuring the position of stars.

Synonyms:

measuring instrument, astrolabe, measuring device, limb, measuring system,

Antonyms:

immoderation, intense, high, mild, low,