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sextant altitude corrections sextant altitude corrections[′sek·stənt ¦al·tə‚tüd kə‚rek·shənz] (navigation) Corrections applied to sextant altitude readings which are made necessary by external physical phenomena, such as sea-air temperature difference, wave height, and sea tilt, personal errors such as tilt and height of eye, and sextant errors. |