Word: sextants
Category: sextants
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Translations: sextants
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spanish
Translations:
sextantes, los sextantes, sextante, de sextantes, sextantes de
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german
Translations:
sextanten, Sextanten, Sextant, ein Sextant
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french
Translations:
sextant, des sextants, les sextants, de sextants
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italian
Translations:
sestanti, sestante, sestanti di, I sestanti
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portuguese
Translations:
sextantes, sextante, os sextantes
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dutch
Translations:
sextanten, sextant
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russian
Translations:
секстанты, секстантами
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swedish
Translations:
sextanter
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finnish
Translations:
sekstantit
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danish
Translations:
Sekstanter
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czech
Translations:
sextanty, sextantů
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polish
Translations:
sekstansów
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turkish
Translations:
sekstantları, Sekstantlar, sekstant
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greek
Translations:
εξάντα, εξάντων, τον εξάντα, Εξάντες
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ukrainian
Translations:
секстанти
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albanian
Translations:
Sextants
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belarusian
Translations:
секстант
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estonian
Translations:
sekstantideks, sekstandis, Sekstandid
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croatian
Translations:
sekstanata
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lithuanian
Translations:
Sekstantai
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romanian
Translations:
sextanŃilor, sextanŃii, sextante
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slovak
Translations:
sextanty
The meaning and "use of": sextants
noun
- an instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the angular distances between objects and especially for taking altitudes in navigation. - Later, celestial navigation using sextants and fairly accurate clocks enabled absolute positioning, but the sailors had to refer back to dead reckoning on days with poor weather conditions.
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