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

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

Sext :: Sext (n.) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII..

Radius :: Radius (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) A small volume containing the daily service for the little hours, viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline..

Subsided :: Subsextuple (a.) Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion..

Sexton :: Sexton (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc..

Sextans :: Sextans (n.) A constellation on the equator south of Leo; the Sextant.

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

Sextos :: Sextos (pl. ) of Sext.

Sextetto :: Sextetto (n.) See Sestet.

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

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

Sexteyn :: Sexteyn (n.) A sacristan.

Sextile :: Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

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..

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..

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..

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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

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