Over a 20 year period of time, Tycho Brahe made consistent observations which supported the heliocentric theory proposed earlier by Copernicus. These observations were made using only a compass and a sextant.
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Sextant
/ˈsɛk.stənt/
Synonyms for "sextant" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Noun(1 words)
angle instrument
astrolabeastronavigationazimuth circleazimuth compassbevelbevel protractorbevel squarecelestial navigationchronometer
Strong matches (15)
clinometercoastwise navigationcompassconsolancrescentdead reckoningdirection finderfixgaugegoniometergraphometerhalf circlehemicycleinstrumentline of position
Related words (25)
loranpantometerpilotageplane sailingpoint-to-point navigationprotractorquadrantradarradio beaconradio navigationradiogoniometersectorsemicircleshoransofarsonartablestheodolitetransittransit circle
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transit instrumenttransit theodolite
Noun(3 words)
marine instrumentnavigation instrumentsurveying instrument
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3 entriesastronomical sextantdrum sextantmarine sextant
Collocations
6 entriesastronomical sextantcelestial navigationdrum sextanthorizon anglemarine sextantsun altitude
Inflections
1 entriesTranslations
32 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- سُدُس noun (navigational instrument)
- سُدْس noun (navigational instrument)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- sekstant noun (navigational instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- секстант noun (navigational instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 六分儀 /六分仪 noun (navigational instrument)
Czech
1 entries- sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Danish
1 entries- sekstant noun (navigational instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- sekstanto noun (navigational instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- sekstantti noun (navigational instrument)
French
1 entries- sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Galician
1 entries- sextante noun (navigational instrument)
German
1 entries- Sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Greek
1 entries- εξάντας noun (navigational instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- 六分儀 noun (navigational instrument)
Kazakh
1 entries- секстант noun (navigational instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 육분의 noun (navigational instrument)
Malayalam
1 entries- ദൂരകോണമാപിനി noun (navigational instrument)
Manx
1 entries- uillin-towsheyder noun (navigational instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sekstant noun (navigational instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sekstant noun (navigational instrument)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آینه noun (navigational instrument)
Persian
1 entries- سدس noun (navigational instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- sextante noun (navigational instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Russian
2 entries- секста́н noun (navigational instrument)
- секста́нт noun (navigational instrument)
Spanish
1 entries- sextante noun (navigational instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- sextant noun (navigational instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kính lục phân noun (navigational instrument)
Welsh
2 entries- onglyr noun (navigational instrument)
- onglyron noun (navigational instrument)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tycho Brahe used only a compass and a sextant to observe the stars.
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He's an expert with a sextant.
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Using a sextant, the sun and a watch to guide him, Amundsen made the 3,000-kilometer round-trip journey from a basecamp in Antarctica in 99 days.
Source: tatoeba (11945620)
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