River Dubois untill the present moment, the sun's altitude at noon has been too great to be reached with my sextant, for this purpose I have therefore employed the Octant by the back observation.
I take my Octant with me also, this I confide La Page.
Moon is in an Octant with the Sun) is nearly, reciprocally as the Cube of the Distance of the Sun from the Earth.
Curly Levitt stepped up to the top gun turret with hisoctant and took his shot.
Trouble is, he’s afraid his octant may have been knocked out of kilter when it fell off the navigation table, back there in the storm.
Then if there should be an error we can blame it on the wallop my octant took in the storm.
If your octant is off, we’ll probably find it out too late to help ourselves.
Hadley's New Invented Quadrant or Octant the best and exacted Instrument for taking the Latitude or Other Altitudes at Sea, as ever yet Invented.
Excluded, of course, are those instruments normally made of wood, such as theoctant and the mariners quadrant.
The latitude of our camp, as the mean of two observations of the meridian altitude of the sun's lower limb with octant by back observation is N.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: compass; gauge; instrument
