How to use "sextant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi
Example sentences for "sextant" in popular movie and book plots
- He gifts Killian with a sextant that will guide them to a strange new land and will bring peace to the kingdom. - Good Form
- When up on deck, Javed uses a makeshift sextant to get the ship's latitude. - Escape Plan (film)
- During his visit he is presented with an old sextant that Tom had been planning to sell. - Foreign Land (novel)
- He purchases a sextant from a junkshop, made forHC. - For Love & Money
- from putting his sextant to use the fog also seems to interfere with both compasses and electronic equipment, including watches. - Twilight Children
- when his sextant places them somewhere in Kansas; he asserts that he is correct. - Cold Asylum
- Finally able to see the sky, Dix uses his pocket sextant to find their approximate location; to his disbelief, the latest jump has taken him and his friends somewhere near Moscow. - Red Equinox
- He also let Little Johnny look through a sextant and search for Polaris. - Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Example sentences for "sextant" in interesting articles
- Unlike the captain, Mundy had no sextant and no working chronometer; instead, he relied on his wristwatch and a small compass. - Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War
Meaning of "sextant" in English
- a measuring instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant
- a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees
Meaning of "sextant" in Hindi
- षष्ठक
- शठक
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