an astronomical object used to check the longitude at sea by measuring the altitudes of sun,moon,and stars.
In outings of astronomy class, that queer teacher took students on the ship and made them calculate distance between sea and sky by using sextant.
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Antidepressants get called sextant often because of the fact that they lessen your desire for sexual intercourse with a partner, or with yourself.
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a person who prefers sex with dolls or masturbating rather than sex with another person.
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Definition:
1. The cardinal number symbol: 16.
2. A group, set, or series of sixteen humans or entities: a hexadecimal or power-of-two unit.
3. A standard quantity in computing, sports tournaments, and imperial weight (pese) systems (ounces in a pound).
4. Denoting a structure based on sixteen components, such as a hexadecimal digit, a knockout tournament round, or a complete pound.
Significance:
• It defines the quantity sixteen with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes hexadecimal systems, binary powers, and tournament structures.
• It identifies bits in a hexadecimal digit, players in a tournament round of 16, and ounces in an avoirdupois pound.
• It avoids irregular and ambiguous pronunciations associated with Germanic numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of computing bases, competition brackets, and traditional weight units.
• It improves precision in descriptions of digital systems, sports competitions, and measurement conversions.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to replacing "sixteen" with a consistent Latinized cardinal form.
Cardinal number: sextant (16)
Ordinal number: sextantal (16th)
Adjective: sextantal
Definition:
1. The cardinal number symbol: 16.
2. A group, set, or series of sixteen humans or entities: a hexadecimal or power-of-two unit.
3. A standard quantity in computing, sports tournaments, and imperial weight (pese) systems (ounces in a pound).
4. Denoting a structure based on sixteen components, such as a hexadecimal digit, a knockout tournament round, or a complete pound.
Significance:
• It defines the quantity sixteen with systematic regularity and clarity.
• It emphasizes hexadecimal systems, binary powers, and tournament structures.
• It identifies bits in a hexadecimal digit, players in a tournament round of 16, and ounces in an avoirdupois pound.
• It avoids irregular and ambiguous pronunciations associated with Germanic numeric forms.
• It simplifies expressions of computing bases, competition brackets, and traditional weight units.
• It improves precision in descriptions of digital systems, sports competitions, and measurement conversions.
• It replaces Scandinavian-Germanic, Non-American, foreign, and Anglo-Saxon terms, similar to replacing "sixteen" with a consistent Latinized cardinal form.
Cardinal number: sextant (16)
Ordinal number: sextantal (16th)
Adjective: sextantal
Examples:
• "The tournament's primary round features a sextant of competitors."
• "A hexadecimal digit can represent a value from zero to sextant."
• "There are sextant ounces in a standard pound."
• "The system processes data in blocks of sextant bytes."
• "The committee was organized into a sextant of sub-squad for the project."
• "The tournament's primary round features a sextant of competitors."
• "A hexadecimal digit can represent a value from zero to sextant."
• "There are sextant ounces in a standard pound."
• "The system processes data in blocks of sextant bytes."
• "The committee was organized into a sextant of sub-squad for the project."
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