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  2. Longitude by chronometer - Wikipedia

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    Longitude by chronometer is a method, in navigation, of determining longitude using a marine chronometer, which was developed by John Harrison during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is an astronomical method of calculating the longitude at which a position line, drawn from a sight by sextant of any celestial body, crosses the ...

  3. Marine chronometer - Wikipedia

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    A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies.

  4. Bootstrap (front-end framework) - Wikipedia

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    Bootstrap (formerly Twitter Bootstrap) is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains HTML , CSS and (optionally) JavaScript -based design templates for typography , forms , buttons , navigation , and other interface components.

  5. Navigation bar - Wikipedia

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    A navigation bar (or navigation system) is a section of a graphical user interface intended to aid visitors in accessing information. Navigation bars are implemented in operating systems, file browsers , [ 1 ] web browsers , apps, web sites and other similar user interfaces .

  6. Wikipedia : User page design guide/Navigation aids

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    Navigation bars are templates which have an assortment of links usually based around a theme. They are designed to stretch across a page, usually at the top. Here are some examples you can clone and stylize for your user page:

  7. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    Marine chronometer used to determine time at the prime meridian with great precision which is necessary when reducing sights in celestial navigation. Nocturnal used to determine apparent local time by viewing the Polaris and its surrounding stars. Ring dial or astronomical ring used to measure the height of a celestial body above the horizon ...

  8. List of graphical user interface elements - Wikipedia

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    A child window opens automatically or as a result of a user activity in a parent window. Pop-up windows on the Internet can be child windows. A message window, or dialog box, is a type of child window. These are usually small and basic windows that are opened by a program to display information to the user and/or get information from the user.

  9. Font Awesome - Wikipedia

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    It was made by Dave Gandy for use with Bootstrap. [1] [4] Font Awesome can be downloaded from BootstrapCDN. [5] Font Awesome 5 was released on December 7, 2017, with 1,278 icons. [6] Version 5 comes in two packages: Font Awesome Free and the proprietary Font Awesome Pro (available for $99 a year).