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Meaning of "octant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OCTANT

From Latin octans half quadrant, from octo eight.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OCTANT

octant  [ˈɒktənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCTANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Octant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OCTANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of octant in the English dictionary

The first definition of octant in the dictionary is any of the eight parts into which the three planes containing the Cartesian coordinate axes divide space. Other definition of octant is an eighth part of a circle. Octant is also the position of a celestial body when it is at an angular distance of 45° from another body.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCTANT


actant
ˈæktənt
annectent
əˈnɛktənt
attractant
əˈtræktənt
chemoattractant
ˌkɛməʊəˈtræktənt
cosurfactant
ˌkəʊsɜːˈfæktənt
cryoprotectant
ˌkraɪəʊprəˈtektənt
disinfectant
ˌdɪsɪnˈfɛktənt
expectant
ɪkˈspɛktənt
extractant
ɪkˈstræktənt
humectant
hjuːˈmɛktənt
inexpectant
ˌɪnɪkˈspektənt
infectant
ɪnˈfektənt
injectant
ɪnˈdʒektənt
interactant
ˌɪntərˈæktənt
protectant
prəˈtɛktənt
reactant
rɪˈæktənt
reductant
rɪˈdʌktənt
reluctant
rɪˈlʌktənt
respectant
rɪˈspɛktənt
surfactant
sɜːˈfæktənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCTANT

octan
octandrian
octandrous
octane
octane number
octane rating
octanedioic acid
octangle
octangular
octanol
Octans
octantal
Octantis
octapeptide
octapla
octaploid
octaploidy
octapodic
octapody
octarchies

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCTANT

accountant
assistant
constant
consultant
contestant
distant
habitant
hesitant
important
instant
militant
montant
mutant
on the instant
Protestant
resistant
resultant
transductant
unreluctant
water-resistant

Synonyms and antonyms of octant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «octant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCTANT

Find out the translation of octant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of octant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «octant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

八分
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

octante
570 millions of speakers

English

octant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऑक्टेंट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ثمن محيط الدائرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

октант
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

octant
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্র্ধপাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oktan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oktanten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

八分儀
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

팔분
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Octant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chòm sao bát nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வட்டத்தின் எட்டில் ஒரு பகுதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अष्टक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oktant
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ottante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oktant
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

октант
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Octant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Οκτάς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oktant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oktant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oktanten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of octant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTANT»

The term «octant» is regularly used and occupies the 86.436 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «octant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «octant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about octant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTANT»

Discover the use of octant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to octant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Circular Dichroism: Principles and Applications
(a) (c) Figure 10.4 (a) Octant rule diagram and octant projection diagram applied to cyclohexanone. The C=O group is aligned along the intersection of the XZ and YZ planes, and viewed from O to C. The cyclohexanone carbons are projected ...
Nina Berova, Koji Nakanishi, Robert Woody, 2000
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Organic Conformational Analysis and Stereochemistry from ...
Sign of Contribution of P6rturb6r in Bock Octant Sign of Contribution of Perturber in Pront Octont Figure 4-3. Octant rule diagram for the ketone carbonyl n -> n transition. Local symmetry- derived, orthogonal octant planes XZ and YZ divide all ...
David A. Lightner, Jerome E. Gurst, 2000
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Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach
Taken as pairs, the axes determine three coordinate planes: the xy-plane, the xz- plane, and the yz-plane. These three coordinate planes separate the three- dimensional coordinate system into eight octants. The first octant is the one in which ...
Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler, Bruce H. Edwards, 2007
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Precalculus with Limits
These three coordinate planes separate the three-dimensional coordinate system into eight octants. The first octant is the one in which all three coordinates are positive. In this three-dimensional system, a point P in space is determined by an ...
Ron Larson, 2010
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An Explanation of a New Construction and Improvement of the ...
I observed at the Beginning, that though no Im strument can compare with- the Sea-Octant for Usefulness, yet none has so concise and perspicuous a Theory, which I shall now demonstrate (from Fig. 14.) may be contained in four Lines only .
Benjamin MARTIN (Optician), 1775
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The Description and Use of the Universal Trigonometrical ...
THE DESCRIPTION and USE O F The New Universal Octant. Contrived and Made By GEORGE ADAMS, Mathematical Instrument-Maker to his Majesty's Office of Ordnance, At iychb Brakes Head, the Corner of Racquet-Court, in Fleet- Street, ...
George Adams, 1753
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Robert Burns Woodward: Architect and Artist in the World of ...
The octant rule: The observer sights along the carbonyl group of an asymmetric ketone in the z-plane. The space around the carbonyl double bond is divided into octants, and each octant is assigned a sign — based on empirical evidence of ...
Otto Theodor Benfey, Peter John Turnbull Morris, 2001
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IBM Power Systems 775 for AIX and Linux HPC Solution
Step4 The total number of connections to build a super node are 384.192 +128 + 64 = 384 Octant3 Octant 4 Octant 5 Octant 6 Octant 7 It must be noted that every Octant has 24 connections, but the total number of connections across the 4 ...
Dino Quintero, Kerry Bosworth, Puneet Chaudhary, 2014
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PC Mag
... relates condition code ; bits to octant numbers label word ; sine dispatch table dw tsinfl ; octant 0 dw tsinl ; octant 1 dw fsin2 ; octant 2 dw fs 3 ; octant 3 dw £sin4 ; octant 4 dw tsinS ; octant 5 dw tsin6 ; octant 6 dw £sin7 ; octant 7 label word ...
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Handbook of Grid Generation
the octant must be subdivided further until the number and complexity of model entities within the octant can be represented. This process does introduce refinement past what was requested. In addition, it is always possible to devise ...
Joe F. Thompson, Bharat K. Soni, Nigel P. Weatherill, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term octant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Researchers Accidentally Discover Centuries Old Shipwreck off …
The research team discovered a navigational tool, that appears to be an octant or a sextant and a pottery jog among the wreckage. «AccuWeather.com, Jul 15»
2
Centuries old shipwreck discovered off North Carolina
... hearth), glass bottles, an unglazed pottery jug, a metal compass, and another navigational instrument that might be an octant or sextant. «Stanly News & Press, Jul 15»
3
Centuries old shipwreck found in Atlantic Sea
... hearth), glass bottles, an unglazed pottery jug, a metal compass, and another navigational instrument that might be an octant or sextant. «The News, Jul 15»
4
Centuries-old shipwreck found off North Carolina coast
An octant or sextant and pottery jug found in a shipwreck found by scientists off the North Carolina coast. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ... «WFLA, Jul 15»
5
Year of commemoration on P.E.I.
The weathervane depicts an eighteenth century surveyor holding an octant, a tool Holland would have used to measure latitude. Constructed ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Crossing disciplines, finding knowledge
... an 1880 clothes wringer, a jar of 150-year-old Brazilian coffee beans, and a brass-framed octant made in London before the Civil War. «Harvard Gazette, May 15»
7
Exploring the Famous Southern Cross Constellation
... the Scorpion; Hydra, the Water Snake; Triangulum Australe, the Southern Triangle; Carina, the Keel of Argo, the Ship; and Octans, the Octant. «Space.com, May 15»
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Octant Learning Inc Just Filed Form D Announcing $2.00 million …
Octant Learning Inc, Corporation just filed form D regarding $2.00 million financing. Octant Learning Inc is expected to sell $2.00 million in this ... «OctaFinance.com, May 15»
9
First Yale-NUS cohort declares majors
According to data published by The Octant, Yale-NUS's student newspaper, 52 percent of sophomore majors will specialize in the social ... «Yale Daily News, Apr 15»
10
Octant Energy Corp. Announces Shareholder Approval and Closing …
(TSX VENTURE:OEL) (the "Corporation" or "Octant") is pleased to announce the results of voting at its special meeting of shareholders held ... «Marketwired, Apr 15»

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