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horizontal sextant angle
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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horizontal sextant angle, the angle in the horizontal plane between two
landmarks or sea-marks. By measuring such an angle, the
navigator is able to plot a position circle on his
chart. Somewhere on this circle is his ship's position. By intersecting it with a second one obtained in the same way, or by intersecting it with a straight
position line, he then knows that the point of intersection is his ship's exact position.
See also
coastal navigation.
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Sextant Obtains Loan Extension.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 12/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, DECEMBER 11, 2001 Sextant Entertainment Group Inc. ("Sextant", the "Company") is pleased to announce...following significant terms and conditions: * Sextant has agreed to pay accrued interest monthly...
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Triumph Group and Sextant Avionique Reach Agreement.
Business Wire; 7/3/1997; 700+ words
; ...WIRE)--July 3, 1997--Triumph Group Inc. (NYSE:TGI) and Sextant Avionique S.A. of Paris Thursday announced that Sextant Avionique's U.S. subsidiary, Sextant Avionique Inc. has agreed to acquire Triumph's Air Lab division...
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Sextant Records Second Consecutive Quarter of Positive Earnings, Symbol: YSX.U (CDNX).
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 11/28/2000; 700+ words
; VANCOUVER, Nov 27, 2000 Sextant Entertainment Group, Inc. (Sextant) today announced financial results for the Company...2000, ended September 30, 2000. For the quarter, Sextant reported net income of $342,000 on revenues of...
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To improve your sextant technique; points for the celestial navigator to remember as the height of the boating season approaches. Most important: practice.
Magazine article from: Yachting; 7/1/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...reduction long before becoming adept with the sextant. This is not to suggest that the sight...position finding still remains in the sextant observation--that part of the process...Assuming you are already familiar with your sextant, let's look at some of the elements...
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Sextant Avionique aiming at U.S. programs. (Special Supplement) (interview)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 9/28/1989; 700+ words
; SEXTANT AVIONIQUE AIMING AT U.S. PROGRAMS While U...much worldwide speculation or apprehension as Sextant Avionique, France's newest avionics firm, and now Europe's largest. Sextant was formed earlier this year after Thomson...
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Sextant Search Partners Announces Promotion of Holly Davidson Little to Partner.
Business Wire; 9/12/2007; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Sextant Search Partners, a leading provider of...Davidson has been a critical member of Sextant's Private Equity, Global Banking and...equity and buyout firms. Before joining Sextant, Ms. Davidson spent over a decade in...
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Sextant Search Partners Hires Mark Esposito to Ramp Up Consumer Finance, Corporate Administration Practices.
PR Newswire; 1/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...NEW YORK, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Sextant Search Partners, LLC, the leading provider...Corporate Administration practices at Sextant. Mr. Esposito was formerly a partner...organizations," said Steven B. Potter, Sextant's founding Chairman and current Chief...
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Sextant expected to purchase U.S. electronics firm. (Sextant Avionique)
Newspaper article from: Defense Daily; 9/27/1989; 700+ words
; SEXTANT EXPECTED TO PURCHASE U.S. ELECTRONICS...participate in the U.S. defense market, Sextant Avionique (the recently formed French...share in an American electronics firm, a Sextant official told Defense Daily at the Helitech...
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B/E AEROSPACE: B/E Aerospace announces in-flight entertainment venture with Sextant Avionique.
M2 Presswire; 2/3/1999; 700+ words
; ...announces in-flight entertainment joint venture with Sextant Avionique -- planned restructuring of operations...IFE) business to a wholly owned subsidiary of Sextant Avionique, S.A. (Sextant). Sextant, which supplies complete avionics...
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Dutchman's sextant makes poignant journey 'home'
Newspaper article from: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK); 5/7/2007; ; 587 words
; A Sextant used on the Dutch ship SS Breda, which...Tonny Klein took receipt of her father's sextant at the Oban War and Peace Museum and spoke...had charted its course back to them. The sextant's whereabouts was unknown for a few years...
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Sextant
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...a measurement with a sextant is called sighting the...optical instruments called sextants have been used as navigation...especially by seafarers. The sextant replaced the astrolabe...surveillance technology, the sextant is still used by navigators...experiments. Marine sextants depend upon ...
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sextant
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
sextant, a double-reflecting instrument for...60°, by double reflection the sextant measure angles up to 120°. The...widely regarded as the joint inventor of the sextant. The modern sextant employs the same optical...
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vertical sextant angle
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
vertical sextant angle, the angle in the vertical plane...and the sea level below it read on a sextant . If the height of the top of the observed...must be made when necessary. Vertical sextant angles are particularly useful to the...
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SEXTANT
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
SEXTANT, codename for the Allied Cairo conference...Chiang Kai-shek , was also attending SEXTANT and Stalin, who unlike China was not at...Discussions during the second part of SEXTANT included those with President Inö...
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horizontal sextant angle
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
horizontal sextant angle, the angle in the horizontal plane between two landmarks or sea-marks. By measuring such an angle, the navigator is...
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