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Crossword-Solution: OCTANT 6 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Octant n. The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
Octant n. The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a
planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and
quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
Octant n. An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a
quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the
eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
Octant n. One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by
three coordinate planes.

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We have 44 clues for the answer “OCTANT”

Clue Answers
45-degree circle section 1 answer
Newton's navigational invention 1 answer
One eighth 1 answer
One eighth of a circle 1 answer
Many a pizza slice 1 answer
Instrument for measuring altitude of celestial bodies 1 answer
Forty-five degree arc 1 answer
FORTY-five degree angle 1 answer
One of eight slices 1 answer
Circle eighth 1 answer
Circle division 1 answer
Astronaut's instrument 1 answer
An eighth of a circle 1 answer
An angle of 45 degrees. 1 answer
45-degree sector 1 answer
45 degrees of a circle 1 answer
45 degree angle. 1 answer
1/8 of a circle 1 answer
One-eighth of a circle 1 answer
One-eighth portion 1 answer
Pie slice, typically 1 answer
Piece of pie, often 1 answer
Piece of the pie, perhaps 1 answer
Relative of a sextant 1 answer
Section of a three-dimensional graph 1 answer
Slice of pizza, frequently 1 answer
Slice of the pie, maybe? 1 answer
instrument Navigator heading (abbr.) 1 answer
Eighth of a circle 2 answers
One-eighth part 2 answers
Navigator's instrument 2 answers
Navigation instrument 2 answers
Eighth part of a circle 2 answers
Navigator's device. 2 answers
Pizza slice, usually 2 answers
Pizza slice, often 2 answers
Circle section 2 answers
Navigational instrument 3 answers
Part of a circle 4 answers
Nautical measure 7 answers
Navigator's aid 9 answers
Circle segment 10 answers
Measuring device. 14 answers
Eight 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OCTANT (5)

Latitude was easy to determine using an octant and later a sextant with mirrors and a small telescope to measure the angle between a celestial body such as the sun or north star and the horizon.
Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed. S. A. Reilly 2004
Captain Cook made him a present of an Hadley's octant; and, though it was probably the first he had ever seen, he understood, in a very short time, the various uses to which that instrument can be applied.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook: with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 2005
Charred remains of the boat, a burned octant, and a few unexploded cartridges were all that remained of the meager outfit upon which they depended to take them to the mouth of the river, a distance of over 250 miles.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822 Various 2005
The Earth, in reference to the Moon or the Projectile, was in her last phase, or octant as it is called, and showed a sharp-horned, attenuated, but brilliant crescent strongly relieved by the black background of the sky.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 2005
The flat bar which carries the nonius scale and index-glass of a quadrant, octant, quintant, or sextant.
The Sailor's Word-Book William Henry Smyth 2008
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 44 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).