sext's Usage Examples:

according as the planets are near or far as regards one another (in conjunction, in semi-sextile, semi-square, sextile, quintile, square, trine, sesqui-quadrate, bi-quintile, opposition or parallel acclination).

In 1943 he leads a quintet and sextet based in Los Angeles which includes Nat King Cole.

33 of the Quinisext council (692) requires even singers and readers to be tonsured.

The show relays the challenges of raising twins and sextuplets by simply following the lives of the Gosselin family.

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

Matthew Rye The Sunday Telegraph, 21st December 2003 No, not the old brigade who formed this vocal sextet 35 years ago !A sextet inspired by the orchestral color and spontaneous feel of Charles Mingus 's small group music.

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

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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.

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

AS, the Roman unit of weight and measure, divided into 12 unciae (whence both "ounce" and "inch"); its fractions being deunx i 2, dextans, dodrans 4 i bes 3, septunx T7-2-, semis z, quincunx A, triens 3 i quadrans 4, sextans s, sescuncia ", uncia r i g.

Bandleader Tom Brown claimed that it was his saxophone sextet, the Six Brown Brothers, who inaugurated the craze.