declination
declination is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. "The declination of monarchy." Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. Waller.
- 2.The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. The declination of atoms in their descent. Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. South.
- 3.The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.
- 4.(Astron.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
- 5.(Dialing) The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
- 6.(Gram.) The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4. Angle of declination, the angle made by a descending line, or plane, with a horizontal plane. -- Circle of declination, a circle parallel to the celestial equator. -- Declination compass (Physics), a compass arranged for finding the declination of the magnetic needle. -- Declination of the compass or needle, the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- aside
- away
- cast
- chosen
- decline
- deny
- discard
- disclaim
- done
- eject
- except
- exclude
- exclusion
- fling
- give
- have
- lay
- naught
- neither
- non
- nor
- not
- one
- other
- out
- overboard
- pluck
- question
- refusal
- refuse
- reject
- rejectaneous
- rejection
- repudiate
- repudiation
- right
- scout
- send
- set
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is declination.
- What is the act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. The declination of atoms in their descent. Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. South called?
- What is the act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow called?
- What is the angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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