sextan


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sextan

(ˈsɛkstən)
adj
(Pathology) (of a fever) marked by paroxysms that recur after an interval of five days
[C17: from Medieval Latin sextana (febris) (fever) of the sixth (day)]
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At some point Tremble and his wife Martha had also run a pub called the Sextan's Inn at Caio but had been unsuccessful and had to give it up.
Mouvement de la langue, qui renonce a toute idee d'absolu, mouvement de la matiere poetique, qui privilegie l'etrangete: Le poete descend, sans guide ni palan, sans rive ni sextan ni clameur demeurant Et l'empreint de volcan l'ouvre d'une eau de sable (457).
This division's laser gyro inertial units such as the Sextan and Totem are, or will be, fitted to as many different types of platforms as the Tiger helicopter, the Transall transport aeroplane or Ariane 5 space rocket.
VERY EARLY on the morning of March 14th, the faint asteroid 51 Nemausa will black out an 11.5-magnitude star in the constellation Sextans. The star will appear to dim to 10.2 (the magnitude of Nemausa) for up to 15.7 seconds for viewers along a path running from New Jersey across western New York and Lake Ontario to Nunavut.
"The hypervelocity stars are mostly found in the Leo and Sextans constellations - we wondered why that is the case."
Se deben incluir, no obstante, en este criterio de seleccion metrologica dos de los tres divisores que formaban parte del conjunto: el sextans de Populonia (16 g) y un semis romano, la moneda mas antigua de las identificadas en el conjunto y, por tanto, de peso todavia elevado (25,02 g) (Arevalo Gonzalez y Marcos Alonso, 1998: 39), por lo que solo destaca en este hallazgo por su reducido modulo y escaso peso (7,79 g y 20,8 mm) un sextans romano.
Sculptor, Hydra, Sextans and Crater are lesser-known examples of what?
The system, known as AY Sextantis, is located about 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Sextans. It pairs a 1.7-millisecond pulsar named PSR J1023+0038 -- J1023 for short -- with a star containing about one-fifth the mass of the sun.