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 octant - Definition 

Octant (385 bytes)
1: ...no accepted naming convention for the other seven octants.

Octans (1442 bytes)
4: genitive = Octantis |
5: symbology = the [[Octant]] |
11: starname = [[Sigma Octantis]] |
28: ...ion of the south celestial pole. Its star [[Sigma Octantis]] (σ Oct) is the closest naked-eye star t...
38: [[fr:Octant (constellation)]]

Angle excess (1369 bytes)
1: ...e [[triangle]] has an angle sum of 180°; an [[octant]] is a [[spherical triangle]] with three right an...

Origin of lunar nomenclature (6550 bytes)
8: ...ion aligned with the compass directions. Thus the octant VI lay to the south, and would include [[Clavius ...
28: ...Atlas]], and [[Archimedes]]. Toward the middle in octants IV, V, and VI were names
31: ...extremes of octants V, VI, VII, as well as all of octant VIII were devoted to contemporaries of Riccioli. ...

George Hadley (1520 bytes)
3: ... inventor of the [[reflecting telescope]] and the octant (a precursor to the [[sextant]]).

Plant embryogenesis (3276 bytes)
12: ...l for somatic embryos. From the eight cell stage (octant) the zygotic embyro, embryo patterning is apparen...

Sextant (10073 bytes)
5: ...90°, and thus not possible to measure with an octant.

Gas in a harmonic trap (7376 bytes)
41: ... equation and the bounding planes of the positive octant.

Tholian (5120 bytes)
38: ...[[ISC]]'s campaign of pacification and joined the octant-wide resistance to the subsequent [[Andromedan]] ...

Polyhedron (8382 bytes)
54: *An octant in Euclidean 3-space, { ( ''x'',''y'',''z'' ) : ...

Celestial navigation (7233 bytes)
27: ...uments, including the [[kamal]], [[astrolabe]], [[octant]] and [[sextant]]. The sextant is the most accur...

Gas in a box (10905 bytes)
48: since we only consider the octant with positive ''n<sub>i&nbsp;</sub>''. The number...

Roman surface (12470 bytes)
168: .... But the lobes occupy alternating octants: four octants are empty and four are occupied by lobes.

Pythagorean theorem (10519 bytes)
89: ...all three sides of the right triangle bounding an octant of the unit sphere have length equal to &pi;/2; t...

Flag of Brazil (8022 bytes)
22: ...d on the flag trace appear to rotate around Sigma Octantis. Choosing this star to represent Brazil's capit...
29: ... To the south of it is Polaris Australis ([[Sigma Octantis]], numbered 7), representing the [[Brazilian Fe...
39: # [[Sigma Octantis]] (&sigma; Octantis; south pole star)
43: ...representing the Brazilian states (except [[Sigma Octantis]] which represents the capital or Federal Distr...
190: |Sigma Octantis (Polaris Australis)

Star Fleet Universe (13630 bytes)
101: ...pire on the far side of the galaxy from the Alpha octant, and reportedly launch an invasion of the alpha r...

Galley (14077 bytes)
8: ...century]], and the development of [[sextant]]s, [[octant]]s and accurate [[chronometer]]s together with th...

Conversion of units (43175 bytes)
647: | octant || &nbsp;

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