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Gunter's quadrant   /gˈəntərz kwˈɑdrənt/   Listen
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Gunter's quadrant  n.  A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.






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"Gunter's quadrant" Quotes from Famous Books



... GUNTER'S QUADRANT. A kind of stereographic projection on the plane of the equinoctial; the eye is supposed in one of the poles, so that the tropic, ecliptic, and horizon form the arches of the circles, but the hour-circles are all curves, drawn by means of several altitudes of ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth



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