Dictionary Entry
octant
octant is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
- 2noun
The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
- 3noun
An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O�, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
- 4noun
One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
- 5noun
a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration
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