sextant

Word family nounsextantadjectivesextantal

Related topics: Measurement

sex·tant /ˈsekstənt/ noun [countableC]

TMa tool for measuring angles between stars in order to calculate the position of a ship or aircraft 六分仪〔用于测量星与星之间的角度以计算船或飞机的位置〕

Examples from the Corpus

sextant• That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant.• Even Powell, constantly consulting sextant and compass, felt flummoxed.• Because of the track, navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover.• Once, Billy Hawkins got up in the middle of dinner, walked to the boats, and pulled out the sextant.• So I forgot about him, at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant.• You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea, with sextant and star charts.

Origin sextant

(1500-1600) Modern Latin sextans “sixth part of a circle”, from Latin sextus “sixth”

单词	sextant
释义	sextant Word family nounsextantadjectivesextantal Related topics: Measurement sex·tant /ˈsekstənt/ noun [countableC] TMa tool for measuring angles between stars in order to calculate the position of a ship or aircraft 六分仪〔用于测量星与星之间的角度以计算船或飞机的位置〕 Examples from the Corpus sextant• That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant.• Even Powell, constantly consulting sextant and compass, felt flummoxed.• Because of the track, navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover.• Once, Billy Hawkins got up in the middle of dinner, walked to the boats, and pulled out the sextant.• So I forgot about him, at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant.• You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea, with sextant and star charts. Origin sextant (1500-1600) Modern Latin sextans “sixth part of a circle”, from Latin sextus “sixth”
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