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- Latin · derived fromsextāns
- English todaysextant
From Latin sextāns.
Words from the same roots
Latinsextāns all →
sextans
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sextant
Today it means: A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude. Full definition →
Latin sextāns