Astrolabe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASTROLABE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant
• an instrument used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and in navigation for calculating latitude, before the development of the sextant.
• instrument formerly used to measure the altitude of stars and planets
• An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.
• A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere.
• an early form of sextant

Words related to ASTROLABE

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Words that contain ASTROLABE

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How to use ASTROLABE in a sentence

• These have an Astrolabe, on which all the signs of the planets are marked, together with the hours, and most minute subdivisions of the whole year.
• Off this place, the Astrolabe French discovery ship lay when, some time before, she fired on the natives.
• The Astrolabe went to its help, and ran aground too.
• The astrolabe, an instrument for measuring the altitude of stars above the horizon, which was known to Ptolemy, may also reasonably be assigned to them.
• He first resided at Toledo, at the court of its sovereign, Mamun, for whom he made an astrolabe, which he called in his honour the Mamunian.
• Nay, he was even a mathematician and astronomer, and constructed an astrolabe or orrery, which showed the courses of the planets.
• This allusion to the astrolabe reminds us that it was Abbat Hartmut of St.
• In its simple form, the astrolabe was suspended in a vertical plane, and the stars were observed by bringing the sights on the movable diameter to bear upon them.
• Epistemon was conjuring, with his astrolabe, to know what latitude we were in.
• Mount Astrolabe differs in character from any other of the New Guinea mountains seen by us, indicating a different geological formation.
• On the western side of Mount Astrolabe, for instance, numerous villages and patches of cultivated land were seen from the Bramble.
• Mount Astrolabe is apparently of trap formation, as I have already stated.
• By this officer the following intelligence was brought back concerning the voyage of the Astrolabe and Boussole.
• De la Peyrouse in Botany Bay, Father Le Receveur, who had come out in the Astrolabe as a naturalist, died.
• The Bussole and Astrolabe sailed from Botany-Bay the 11th of March.
• I remember her giving me the same advice about an astrolabe, and again about a sun-dial corrected for the meridian of Bury St.
• The now indispensable sextant was but clumsily anticipated by the newly invented astrolabe.

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