Octant in a sentence as a noun

Each octant does not have a collection of related things.

Let's say the 8pen keyboard divides the keys into octants.

I dont really spend a ton of time looking at k8s, but I feel this is far superior to octant.

Generating random values for x^2, y^2, z^2 and taking their square root will only give you values in the x,y,z > 0 octant.

You can see that because the ray must originate in one octant, and it must cross one of the 3 partition planes to reach another octant and it can only cross each one once.

As far as roulette goes, I believe that casinos changed the rules a long time ago to require that the bets be placed before the ball is released, after a group of UC Santa Cruz physics postgrads in the late '70s, early '80s built a wearable computer that would predict which octant the ball was going to end up in well enough to give a 44% advantage over the house.

Octant definitions

noun

a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration