how to pronounce sextant

/ˈsɛk.stənt/

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sextant is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sextant in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… bottle a female shoe and a sextant box …”

meanings of sextant

noun:

A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth. The front sextants go from canine to canine, and there are sextants on the right and left of these. See w:Periodontal examination.
One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.

name:

The constellation Sextans.

sextant frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sextant occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sextant can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sextant can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;