Get to know Sextant better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Sextant meaning
- 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.
Synonyms of Sextant
Using Sextant
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: angular unit, measuring instrument, measuring system, measuring device.
- In the example corpus, sextant often appears in combinations such as: the sextant, sextant is, using sextant.
Context around Sextant
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 14 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sextant
- In this selection, "sextant" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fakhri, horse, held, allows, useless and finished stand out and add context to how "sextant" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rudimentary sextant known as and a sextant does not. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sextant" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sextant
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Navigational sextants Using a sextant This section discusses navigators' sextants. (10 words)
However, unlike the backstaff, the sextant allows direct observations of stars. (11 words)
The arc of the sextant should appear to continue unbroken into the mirror. (13 words)
Lacking telescopes to work with, he increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant ; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about convert and the optical separability of 180" (seconds of arc). (36 words)
A nautical almanac and a marine chronometer are used to compute the subpoint on earth a celestial body is over, and a sextant is used to measure the body's angular height above the horizon. (35 words)
The sextant was 11 metres long and once rose to the top of the surrounding three-storey structure, although it was kept underground to protect it from earthquakes. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Lacking telescopes to work with, he increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant ; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about convert and the optical separability of 180" (seconds of arc).
The user can hold the sextant on its side and observe the horizon to check the sextant during the day.
But clouds and fog obscured their view of the stars and moon for hours at a time, rendering the sextant useless.
The Queen missed out on her first Epsom Derby race win today as her horse Sextant finished fourth, despite being the favourite.
The investigation will explore the use of a hand-held sextant for emergency navigation on missions in deep space as humans look to travel farther from Earth.
Advantages Like the Davis quadrant (also called backstaff), the sextant allows celestial objects to be measured relative to the horizon, rather than relative to the instrument.
After a week of travel a sextant observation indicated that they were averaging nine nautical miles a day, (17 km; 10 mi), putting them ahead of schedule.
A nautical almanac and a marine chronometer are used to compute the subpoint on earth a celestial body is over, and a sextant is used to measure the body's angular height above the horizon.
A sextant does not require a completely steady aim, because it measures a relative angle.
For this reason a sextant should be checked frequently for errors and adjusted accordingly.
Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical sextant (for measuring the distance between stars ) or Stonehenge (which has some alignments on astronomical phenomena).
However, unlike the backstaff, the sextant allows direct observations of stars.
Index correction should be checked, using the horizon or more preferably a star, each time the sextant is used.
It was a very large mural sextant that achieved a high level of accuracy for astronomical measurements. citation.
Marine chronometer main In order to accurately measure longitude, the precise time of a sextant sighting (down to the second, if possible) must be recorded.
Navigational sciences were highly developed, making use of a rudimentary sextant (known as a kamal).
Navigational sextants Using a sextant This section discusses navigators' sextants.
The arc of the sextant should appear to continue unbroken into the mirror.
The sextant is not dependent upon electricity (unlike many forms of modern navigation) or anything human-controlled (like GPS satellites).
The sextant was 11 metres long and once rose to the top of the surrounding three-storey structure, although it was kept underground to protect it from earthquakes.
Common combinations with sextant
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: