Index of English words, starting with "oc"

(1) - Octameter (n.) A verse containing eight feet; as, --//Deep# in|to# the | dark#ness | peer#ing, | long# I | stood# there | wond'#ring, | fear#ing.

(1) - Octane (n.) Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.

(1) - Octangular (a.) Having eight angles; eight-angled.

(1) - Octant (n.) One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
(2) - Octant (n.) An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
(3) - Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
(4) - Octant (n.) The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.