Usually means: Arc's height from chord midpoint.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sagitta:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sagitta, sagitta: Merriam-Webster
  2. Sagitta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Sagitta: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Sagitta: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Sagitta, sagitta: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sagitta, sagitta: Wordnik
  7. sagitta: Wiktionary
  8. Sagitta: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Sagitta: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Sagitta: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Sagitta (arrowworm), Sagitta (constellation), Sagitta (disambiguation), Sagitta (geometry), Sagitta (optics), Sagitta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sagitta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sagitta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sagitta: Rhymezone
  15. Sagitta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sagitta: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sagitta: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Sagitta: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. sagitta: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sagitta (constellation), sagitta: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sagitta: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Sagitta: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

(Note: See sagittas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sagitta)

noun:  The keystone of an arch.
noun:  (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
noun:  (zootomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or earbones, found in most fishes.
noun:  Any arrowworm, of the genus Sagitta.
noun:  (astronomy) A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble an arrow. It lies between the constellations of Vulpecula and Aquila.

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