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dip sectors

dip sectors is the plural of dip sector.

Meaning of dip sector

Noun

dip sector (plural dip sectors)

  1. (historical) An instrument used for measuring the dip of the horizon. A sextant can be used as one, and historically some instruments were specifically created for the purpose. In reality they appear to have been cumbersome and little used.

Questions about dip sectors

What is dip sectors the plural of?
Dip sectors is the plural of dip sector.

Words near dip sectors in the dictionary

  1. dip one's wick
  2. dip out
  3. dip pen
  4. dip pens
  5. dip sector
  6. dip sectors
  7. dip stitch
  8. dip stitches
  9. dip stream
  10. DIP switch
  11. DIP switches

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