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What are sextants?

What are sextants? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of sextant
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These units incorporated mechanical gyroscopes and while the aircraft were fitted with sextants, it was the INUs that became the primary means of navigation.
Cook carried an early nautical almanac and brass sextants, but no chronometer on the first voyage.
This treatment is covered up to 6 sextants or 4 quadrants or up to 28 teeth per calendar year.
His expedition required the development and assemblage of a network of geographic and other technologies, including credit systems, ships, maps, and sextants.
Angular measurements are made using sextants, theodolites, quadrants and station pointers.
The problem is very complex, and navigators continued to use sextants and other astrolabes to find their location at sea.

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