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On the basis of their spatial and azimuthal distribution, we selected 12 sensors in the Pacific ocean east of the Japan trench.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 16, 2011
The deviation of a transit-instrument from the plane of the meridian at the horizon; it is also termed the azimuthal error.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
These instruments were an iron sextant, 2½ feet in diameter, and a brass azimuthal quadrant 3½ feet in diameter, both of which were divided into single minutes of a degree.
From The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler by Sir David Brewster
