DECLINATION
\dɪklɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \dɪklɪnˈeɪʃən], \d_ɪ_k_l_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DECLINATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
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The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
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The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
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The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
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The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
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The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
By Oddity Software
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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
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The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
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The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
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The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
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The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
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The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
By Noah Webster.
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The act or state of bending, or moving, downwards; dipping, as the declination of a magnetic needle; a slant from some definite direction; decline; decay; the distance of a heavenly body north or south of the equator; nonacceptance.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act of declining; descent; slope; deterioration; decay.
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Refusal; non - acceptance.
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Astron. The angular distance of a heavenly body from the celestial equator.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Deviation, variation. In ophthalmology, normal d. of the retinal meridians is a deviation of the vertical or any other meridian of the eye from the corresponding meridian of external space when the line of regard of the eye is directed parallel to the median plane and in the horizontal plane, the head being in the exact primary position. The term is in no sense synonymous with torsion [G. T. Stevens].
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The declining period of a disease. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act or state of bending downward; descent; inclination;—act or state of falling off from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;—act of deviating or turning aside; obliquity; divergence;—angular distance of any object from the celestial equator;—act of inflecting a word through its various terminations.
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Descent, change from a better to a worse state, decay; the act of bending down; variation from rectitude, oblique motion, obliquity; variation from a fixed point; in navigation, the variation of the needle from the true meridian of any place to the East or West; in astronomy, the declination of a star we call its shortest distance from the equator.
By Thomas Sheridan
