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Answer for the clue "One-eighth of a circle ", 6 letters:
octant

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An octant in solid geometry is one of the eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system defined by the signs of the coordinates. It is similar to the two-dimensional quadrant and the one-dimensional ray . The generalization of an octant ...

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.