See sextant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(dentistry) 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 Periodontal examination."
],
"topics": [
"dentistry",
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɛk.stənt/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛkstənt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "suds",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "سُدْس"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "sudus",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "سُدُس"
},
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "sekstant"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sekstant",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "секстант"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liùfēnyí",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "六分儀 /六分仪"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sekstant"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "sekstanto"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "sekstantti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextante"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sextant"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "exántas",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "εξάντας"
},
{
"alt": "ろくぶんぎ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rokubungi",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "六分儀"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "sekstant",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "секстант"
},
{
"alt": "六分儀",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yukbunui",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "육분의"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "dūrakōṇamāpini",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "ദൂരകോണമാപിനി"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uillin-towsheyder"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sekstant"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sekstant"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "ayna",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "آینه"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sods",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "سدس"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextante"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sekstánt",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "секста́нт"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sekstán",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "секста́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextante"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"alt": "鏡六分",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"word": "kính lục phân"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "onglyr"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "navigational instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "onglyron"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "one sixth of a circle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextant"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one sixth of a circle",
"word": "sekstantti"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "one sixth of a circle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextante"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "one sixth of a circle",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sextante"
}
],
"word": "sextant"
}
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