QUADRANT in a Sentence
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1. Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with coloured glasses, through which to take sight of that solar fire.
2. The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
2. The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
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Meanings and Examples of QUADRANT
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quadrant
n. a measuring instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies
n. a quarter of the circumference of a circle
Classic Sentence:
1 Well that Ahab's quadrant was furnished with coloured glasses, through which to take sight of that solar fire.
2 But chancing to slip with his ivory heel, he saw the crushed copper sight-tubes of the quadrant he had the day before dashed to the deck.
3 I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles, and now the mad sea parts the log-line.
4 The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
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