Reflectingcircle vs Sextant - What's the difference?
reflectingcircle | sextant |
(nautical) A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(geometry) One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
As a proper noun sextant is
(astronomy) the constellation sextans.reflectingcircle
Not English
Reflectingcircle has no English definition. It may be misspelled.sextant
English
Noun
(en noun)- For several days things went along in about the same course. I took our position every morning with my crude sextant ; but the results were always most unsatisfactory. They always showed a considerable westing when I knew that we had been sailing due north. I blamed my crude instrument, and kept on.