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sextants
noun
(sex-tant)
an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude)
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sextants
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theodolite
,
celestial navigation
,
echo sounder
,
spyglass
,
compasses
,
navigators
,
cartesian coordinates
,
breeches buoy
,
gyrocompass
,
armillary sphere
,
periscopes
,
spectroscope
,
caravel
,
retroreflector
,
zodiacs
,
sidewheel
,
sunstone
,
gradiometer
,
sundials
,
spitzbergen
,
handsaws
,
global positioning system
,
astrolabe
,
bathysphere
,
adzes
,
loran
,
bathyscaphe
,
needlenose pliers
,
magnetic compass
,
gimbals
,
trireme
,
inertial navigation system
,
spectrographic
,
camera obscura
,
nathaniel bowditch
,
tachymeter
,
vernier
,
oarlocks
,
shipwrights
,
lightship
,
submergible
,
lanternfish
,
bathyscaph
,
stereopticon
,
fletching
,
bateaux
,
nautical
,
inertial guidance
,
maps
,
altimeters
,
forepeak
,
lunar excursion module
,
binocular microscope
,
capstan
,
surfman
,
whalebone
,
davits
,
dropsonde
,
dowser
,
magnetic declination
,
awls
,
fishhooks
,
morse code
,
bosun
,
stud finder
,
whaleback
,
john hanning speke
,
stereoscopes
,
radiosonde
,
dories
,
windjammer
,
engineless
,
andirons
,
motorless
,
radiotelephone
,
mermen
,
stereographic
,
lunar module
,
protractor
,
datums
,
philae
,
lighthouse
,
longship
,
portholes
,
hubble
,
celestial sphere
,
centerboard
,
feluccas
,
yawl
,
postholes
,
huon pine
,
binnacle
,
bathymetry
,
photometry
,
thimbles
,
chitons
,
sonde
,
scows
,
circinus
,
beacons
,
sextants
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