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sextant meaning

EN[ˈsɛkstənt]
WSextant
  • A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects.
  • The primary use of a sextant is to determine the angle between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation.
FR sextant
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sextant
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
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    1. fr sextant
    2. en sextants
    3. fr sextants
    Source: Wiktionary

    Meaning of sextant for the defined word.

    Grammatically, this word "sextant" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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