sextant

How To Use sextant In A Sentence

• The instruments provided for the journey consisted of two barometers, two thermometers, two compasses, a sextant, two chronometers, an artificial horizon, and an altazimuth, to throw out the height of distant and inaccessible objects. Five Weeks in a Balloon
• To measure latitude, Frémont had two sextants and a reflecting circle, essentially sophisticated protractors; they were used to measure the angle of the sun or the polestar above the horizon.
• As they had had time to take with them a sextant chromometer and The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician
• McKinnon gathered up sextant and chronometer and accompanied them up to the bridge. SAN ANDREAS
• Most of the scientific instruments were lost: the sextants, the big telescope, the five compasses, the artificial horizons; even the thermometers.
• A sextant is a navigational instrument that measures the altitudes of celestial bodies. The Season of Risks
• The instruments we carried were two sextants and three artificial horizons -- two glass and one mercury -- a hypsometer for measuring heights, and one aneroid. The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole
• His other instruments still worked fine - sextants, reflecting circle, artificial horizon, telescope, chronometer, several compasses and probably a couple of thermometers - and he continued recording latitudes and longitudes.
• And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
• On the deckside, only two were on watch -- you and Trent down in the Captain's cabin there keeping an eye on the sextant and chronometer. SAN ANDREAS