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Gunter's quadrants

Gunter's quadrants is the plural of Gunter's quadrant.

Meaning of Gunter's quadrant

Noun

Gunter's quadrant (plural Gunter's quadrants)

  1. 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.

Questions about Gunter's quadrants

What is Gunter's quadrants the plural of?
Gunter's quadrants is the plural of Gunter's quadrant.

Words near Gunter's quadrants in the dictionary

  1. Gunter's Chain
  2. Gunter's Chains
  3. Gunter's line
  4. Gunter's lines
  5. Gunter's quadrant
  6. Gunter's quadrants
  7. Gunter's scale
  8. Gunter's scales
  9. gunterite
  10. gunters
  11. Guntersblum

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