It was in its octant, and showed a crescent finely traced on the dark background of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Moon] Reference

Advances in the development of these instruments made such calculations easier and more precise, for example: the "course protractor", the "cuadrant", the "octant and the sextant", and the "longitude clock", which was a precision chronometer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sailing on and on] Reference

Lewis took meridean altd. of Suns U.L. with the octant above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

Mdnl.altd. of Sons U.L. back obsvn. with the octant Made it 37° 12 '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

An octant is one of the eight sections created by a three-dimensional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Case 4: -1 > m > - ∞ slope:  - Straight line in the Seventh octant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Modern versions of AutoCAD no longer require moving to the positive octant.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root]

Name the octant, coordinate plane, or axis in which a point at (-3, 4, 5) is located.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

It is the sextant or some member of the sextant family -- such as the quadrant, octant, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures in Navigation] Reference

Cap Lewis observed Meridean altitude of ☉ U L. back observation with the octant & artificeal horozen — gave for altitude on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

The sensitivity to the octant is almost completely dominated by atmospheric data, with only minor contributions by LBL measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Quantum Diaries Survivor] Reference

The meridian altitude of the sun's lower limb, as observed with octant by back observation, was 53° 15 ', giving as the latitude of our camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference

Cap Lewis observed meridean altitude of sun U L-back observation with the octant & artificeal horozen - gave for altitude on the Limb 38° 44 '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

The latitude of our camp, as the mean of two observations of the meridian altitude of the sun's lower limb with octant by back observation is N. 45° 24 '8 "5"'.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference

Hadley's octant; and, though it was probably the first he had ever seen, he understood, in a very short time, the various uses to which that instrument can be applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods] Reference

Used the octant on some sunshots; used the drift meter on the whitecaps; picked up wind changes; made heading corrections; came in "on target" with less than ½ hour fuel remaining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Lt. David Purner] Reference

Moon or the Projectile, was in her last phase, or octant as it is called, and showed a sharp-horned, attenuated, but brilliant crescent strongly relieved by the black background of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Around the Moon] Reference

Atmospheric data are always present in any long-baseline neutrino detector: ATM and LBL provide complementary information on neutrino parameters, information in particular on hierarchy and octant degeneracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Quantum Diaries Survivor] Reference

I made him a present of an Hadley's octant; and though, probably, it was the first he had ever seen, he made himself acquainted, in a very short time, with most of the uses to which that instrument can be applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference

Ismailoff gave Cook letters for the Governor of Kamtschatka and the Commandant of Petropaulowsk; and Cook, finding “he was tolerably well versed in astronomy,” gave him a Hadley's octant, and though it was the first one he had seen, he soon made himself acquainted with its uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Captain James Cook]

Captain Cook made him a present of an Hadley’s octant; and, though it was probably the first he had ever seen, he understood, in a very short time, the various uses to which that instrument can be applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference

The latitude of our camp below the entrance of Portage creek, was found to be 47° 7 '10 "3, as deduced from a meridian altitude of the sun's lower limb taken with octant by back observation giving 53° 10'.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference

1 Embryos were analyzed at 1-cell, 2-cell, 4-cell, 8-cell (octant), and.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference