sextant

See also: Sextant

English

A nautical sextant

Etymology

From Latin sextāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛk.stənt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkstənt

Noun

sextant (plural sextants)

1. (nautical) A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:

     For several days things went along in about the same course. I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory. They always showed a considerable westing when I knew that we had been sailing due north. I blamed my crude instrument, and kept on.

2. (geometry) One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
3. (dentistry) One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth. The front sextants go from canine to canine, and there are sextants on the right and left of these. See w:Periodontal examination.

Translations

navigational instrument

• Arabic: سُدْس‎ m (suds), سُدُس‎ (sudus)
• Azerbaijani: sekstant
• Bulgarian: секстант m (sekstant)
• Catalan: sextant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六分儀 (zh), 六分仪 (zh) (liùfēnyí)

• Czech: sextant m
• Danish: sekstant (da) c
• Esperanto: sekstanto
• Finnish: sekstantti (fi)
• French: sextant (fr) m
• Galician: sextante m
• German: Sextant (de) m
• Greek: εξάντας (el) m (exántas)
• Japanese: 六分儀 (ろくぶんぎ, rokubungi)
• Kazakh: секстант (sekstant)
• Korean: 육분의(六分儀) (yukbunui)
• Malayalam: ദൂരകോണമാപിനി (dūrakōṇamāpini)
• Manx: uillin-towsheyder m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sekstant m

  Nynorsk: sekstant m

• Ottoman Turkish: آینه‎ (ayna)
• Persian: سدس‎ (fa) (sods)
• Portuguese: sextante (pt) m
• Romanian: sextant (ro) n
• Russian: секста́нт (ru) m (sekstánt), секста́н (ru) m (sekstán)
• Spanish: sextante (es) m
• Swedish: sextant (sv) c
• Vietnamese: kính lục phân (鏡六分)
• Welsh: onglyr m, onglyron m pl

one sixth of a circle

• Catalan: sextant m
• Finnish: sekstantti (fi)
• Galician: sextante m
• Portuguese: sextante (pt) m
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• octant
• quadrant
• Wikipedia article on Sextant

Anagrams

• exstant

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Czech

Noun

sextant m

1. sextant

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛk.stɑ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

sextant f (plural sextants)

1. sextant

Further reading

• “sextant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French sextant.

Noun

sextant m (plural sextanți)

1. sextant

Declension

Declension of sextant

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sextant	sextantul	(niște) sextanți	sextanții
genitive/dative	(unui) sextant	sextantului	(unor) sextanți	sextanților
vocative	sextantule		sextanților