Noun:

অর্র্ধপাদ, বৃত্তের এক অষ্টমাংশ, পরিমিত চাপ, বৃত্তের পরিধির এক অষ্টমাংশ,

octant's Usage Examples:

The octant, also called reflecting quadrant, is a measuring instrument used primarily in navigation.

The name octant.

name is Latin for the eighth part of a circle, but it is named after the octant, a navigational instrument.

The octant projection or octants projection, is a type of projection proposed the first time, in 1508, by Leonardo da Vinci in his Codex Atlanticus.

sometimes given special names, such as quadrants (90°), sextants (60°), and octants (45°), which come from the sector being one 4th, 6th or 8th part of a full.

Two methods are reported: the octant rule and the exciton chirality method.

The octant rule was introduced in 1961 by William Moffitt.

An octant in solid geometry is one of the eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system defined by the signs of the coordinates.

1744) was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same.

In plane geometry, octant is a circular sector obtained by division of the full circle into 8 equal parts, hence the name.

for each of its octants' three main joined edges, and an M-shape Master-Map profile.

The resulting map comprises 8 octants.

Each octant is an equilateral.

analogue in n-dimensional Euclidean space of a quadrant in the plane or an octant in three dimensions.

It was replaced by the back staff and later by the octant and sextant.

bubble octant and bubble sextant are air navigation instruments.

Although an instrument is called a "bubble sextant", it may actually be a bubble octant.

to Hadley's octant and it was not used significantly.

Jean-Paul Fouchy, a mathematics professor and astronomer in France invented an octant in 1732.

who around 1730 invented the octant.

At approximately the same time an Englishman, John Hadley, also invented the octant independently.

Browning ' Rust made a variety of navigational instruments, including octants and sextants.

Synonyms:

measuring instrument; measuring device; limb; measuring system;