English Explanatory Dictionary

sextant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
  2. One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
  3. One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth.
  4. A radial cell division of segments in three series, a sixth part of the original.
name
  1. The constellation Sextans.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɛk.stənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sextant.wav

Word forms

sextant sextants

Etymology

From Latin sextāns.

Related words

octant quadrant

Derived words

sextantal

Translations

Arabic: سُدْس Arabic: سُدُس Azerbaijani: sekstant Bulgarian: секстант Catalan: sextant Chinese Mandarin: 六分儀 /六分仪 Czech: sextant Danish: sekstant Esperanto: sekstanto Finnish: sekstantti French: sextant Galician: sextante German: Sextant Greek: εξάντας Japanese: 六分儀 Kazakh: секстант Korean: 육분의 Malayalam: ദൂരകോണമാപിനി Manx: uillin-towsheyder Norwegian Bokmål: sekstant Norwegian Nynorsk: sekstant Persian: سدس Portuguese: sextante Romanian: sextant Russian: секста́нт Russian: секста́н Spanish: sextante Swedish: sextant Ottoman Turkish: آینه Vietnamese: kính lục phân Welsh: secstant
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