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Sextry :: Sextry (n.) See Sacristy.

Sextant :: Sextant (n.) The constellation Sextans.

Sexenary :: Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Six times as much; sixfold.

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant..

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Sixteenmo :: Sixteenmo (n.) See Sextodecimo.

Hemina :: Hemina (n.) A measure of half a sextary.

Intercalary :: Intercalary (a.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n..

Altimeter :: Altimeter (n.) An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc..

Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Sextic :: Sextic (n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.

Sextonry :: Sextonry (n.) Sextonship.

Sextoness :: Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Sexto :: Sexto (n.) A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Sextodecimos :: Sextodecimos (pl. ) of Sextodecim.

Observation :: Observation (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc..

Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure..

Leap Year :: Leap year () Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-nine days. See Bissextile..

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