s sa sb sc sd se sf sg sh si sj sk sl sm sn so sp sq sr ss st su sv sw sy

Перевод: sextant

[существительное]
секстант ; шестая часть окружности

Тезаурус:

1. Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home, but we would never know who had wrecked her, only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer, sextant, VHF, barometer, spare sails, lines, fenders, and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth.
2. Illusion could not fix a position from a sextant reading, nor fight two hundred square feet of heavy flogging wet canvas in a tumbling sea and a rough wind.
3. You had to be able to fix your position just like a ship at sea, with sextant and star charts.
4. Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Sextant will introduce a Motif-based reverse engineering tool for C called Sextant 1.0 for C which ships from November.
5. She read the star's altitude off the sextant's micrometer, and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her.
6. The Royal Air Force gave me emergency rations, advice on medical supplies, and a day at RAF Cranwell to learn how to navigate with a bubble sextant.
7. That was one of the problems of using the piste and a sextant.
8. Because of the track, navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover.
9. Hours were spent practising navigation with the bubble sextant.
10. I know Wavebreaker 's got more electronic toys than a battleship, but if the electricity fails then you're back to the sextant and the sharp pencil."
11. "Ask Ellen," I replied laconically, for Ellen was the only person who truly understood all the fancy gadgets though, perversely, she had still not mastered a sextant.
12. So I forgot about him, at least until that evening when I gave Ellen some practice with the sextant.
13. "Christopher Columbus discovered America with a sextant and a chunk of lead tied to the end of a line."