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gunter's quadrant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables
gun-ter's quad-rant
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An instrument containing a kind of stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the equinoctial, used to find the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, etc., and to solve other common problems of the sphere or globe, and also to take the altitude of an object in degrees.

Inflected Forms

Gunter's quadrants (plural)

Questions

What does gunter's quadrant mean?
An instrument containing a kind of stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the equinoctial, used to find the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, etc., and to solve other common problems of the sphere or globe, and also to take the altitude of an object in degrees.

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