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Declination  n.  
1.
The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
2.
The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline. "The declination of monarchy." "Summer... is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay."
3.
The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. "The declination of atoms in their descent." "Every declination and violation of the rules."
4.
The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. "The queen's declination from marriage."
5.
(Astron.) The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
6.
(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.
7.
(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 Declination of the needle, the horizontal angle which the magnetic needle makes with the true north-and-south line.





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"Declination" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Planet offices. I would have sacrificed much to have been afforded means to comfort Isobel; a furious anger towards the man who thus deliberately had brought doubt and unhappiness upon her had taken up permanent quarters in my mind. I counted Coverly's declination to clear himself little better than ...
— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer
... two in the morning. Correction for defective illumination applied when necessary. The volume is very complete, the only deficiency being in the observation of Moon and Planets through the severe morning hours. In 1834 the only novelties are—examination of the graduations of the declination circle of the Equatoreal (excessively bad): observations of a spot on Jupiter for rotation, and of Mars and stars. In 1835 (including January 1836) there is a more complete examination of the Equatoreal graduations: parallax ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy
... attitude necessitated a radical change in the entire program. It had been agreed that the Lieutenant-Governorship should go to a colored man, but after Brace's declination the Ames managers were obliged to take one of two men,—H.C. Carter, or A.K. Davis. Davis was the more acceptable of the two; but neither, it was thought, was a fit and suitable man to be placed at the head of the executive ...
— The Facts of Reconstruction • John R. Lynch
... this, I got almost no observation; the fog came up, and I had scarcely anything better than an estimation. I saw the comet blaze out, just on the edge of the field, and I could read its declination only. ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell
... thickness of the stratum of the rich loam, the result of the decay of vegetable life, accumulated on the roofs and terraces of the buildings, not to speak of their position respecting the pole-star and the declination ...
— The Mayas, the Sources of Their History / Dr. Le Plongeon in Yucatan, His Account of Discoveries • Stephen Salisbury, Jr.


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