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octant

Length / number of characters: 6
Number of words: 1

  • a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body
  • The eighth part of a circle
  • The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees
  • An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant
  • One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes

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