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Definition of Octants
1. octant [n] - See also: octant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octants
Literary usage of Octants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools by Hugh Godfray (1886)
"The points distant 45° from these four positions are called octants. The two
positions 'conjunction' and 'opposition ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"at right angles to both the preceding walls, the embryo now consisting of eight
equal cells or octants. Of these octants, four belong to one half of the ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1832)
"SEAMEN'S octants. Sir,—In the description given in the Mechanics' Magazine, No.
254, of Crow's Seaman's Octant, it is represented as being something quite ..."
4. The Descriptive Geometry and the Perspective of the Straight Line: With a by William John Meyers (1896)
"octants. The three planes, S, H, and V, divide all space into eight equal parts
called octants. These are numbered similarly to the quadrants. ..."
5. Elements of Crystallography: For Students of Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy by George Huntington Williams (1890)
"By the oblique intersections of these axial planes, however, these octants are
not all similar, as in the orthorhombic system, but fall into four pairs of ..."
6. Crystallography: A Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals by Nevil Story-Maskelyne (1895)
"To each octant there will correspond three adjacent octants, which have each one
axial plane in common with the original octant; ..."
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