- Look up
Octant or
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Octant may
refer to:
Octant (solid geometry), one of the
eight divisions of 3-dimensional...
- The
octant, also
called a
reflecting quadrant, is a
reflecting instrument used in navigation. The name
octant derives from the
Latin octans meaning eighth...
- In geometry, an
octant of a
sphere is a
spherical triangle with
three right angles and
three right sides. It is
sometimes called a
trirectangular (spherical)...
-
galaxy are the
Alpha Octant, the Sarg****o
Octant, the
Xorkaelian Empire, the
Sigma Octant, and the
Omega Octant. The
Alpha Octant is the
primary setting...
-
octant and
bubble ****tant are air
navigation instruments.
Although an
instrument may be
called a "bubble ****tant", it may
actually be a
bubble octant...
- An
octant in
solid geometry is one of the
eight divisions of a
Euclidean three-dimensional
coordinate system defined by the
signs of the coordinates. It...
-
further generalized to
conic sections. This
algorithm draws all
eight octants simultaneously,
starting from each
cardinal direction (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°)...
- The
octant projection or
octants projection, is a type of map
projection proposed the
first time, in 1508, by
Leonardo da
Vinci in his
Codex Atlanticus...
- to Hadley's
octant and it was not used significantly. Jean-Paul Fouchy, a
mathematics professor and
astronomer in France,
invented an
octant in 1732. His...
- eye
rather than
those compatible with
optical projections. The
octant projection or
octants projection is a type of
projection proposed for the
first time...
