octant in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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The octant, while occasionally constructed entirely of brass, remained primarily a wooden-framed instrument.
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One common practice among navigators up to the late nineteenth century was to use both a sextant and an octant.
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For example, students make a simple octant with straw, string, paper and a weight.
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The tip of the germ tube divides to form an octant of cells, and the first rhizoid grows as an extension of the original germ cell.
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The original case would have been a keystone shape, to conform to that of the octant.
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Other purchases included octant, equatorial, two theodolites, 10-foot sextant.
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One might expect from the preceding statements that there could be up to eight lobes, one in each octant of space which has been divided by the coordinate planes.
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This spurred the development of the marine chronometer, the lunar distance method and the invention of the octant after 1730.
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The sextant was used with great care and only for lunars, while the octant was used for routine meridional altitude measurements of the sun every day.
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One of the earliest instruments for nautical use was the quadrant; this was followed by the octant.
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