Sextant

(noun.) a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant.

(noun.) a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees.

汉克整理

• In the course of time I brought up on the starboard side of the pilot-house and found a sextant lying on a bench. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.

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