"Pelecoid" is a word in ENGLISH

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees …

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.

A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles.

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc …

The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; …

A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.

A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it …

A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also …

A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; …

Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a …

An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself …

Lat. In Roman law. The fourth part; the quarter of any number, measure, or quantity. Hence an heir to the …

An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly …

The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a …

One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is …

The fourth part; the quarter.

An angular measure of ninety degrees

A cube.

Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space.