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Measuring device's function discovered in time
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octant
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Word definitions for octant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instrument for making angular measurements in navigation or astronomy, 1731, from Late Latin octans "the eighth part," from octo "eight" (see octa- ) on analogy of quadrant . In geometry, octant meant "the eighth part of a circle."
Usage examples of octant.
Torve the Trog was eating from a heaping plate of kumquats, Morovian sugar-grass, and ruvelo, a red root-paste common in this octant as a staple starch.
Sailors could tell their latitude by the angle of the sun off the horizon, had been doing it for a thousand years with cross-staffs, astrolabes, octants and sextants.
There were no instruments in the taxi, no built-in octants, no patent logs, no computers.