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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



... or stories simply because they were the work of well-known persons. And as his acquaintance with authors multiplied, he found that the greater the man the more willing he was that his work should stand or fall on its merit, and that the editor should retain his prerogative of declination—if he deemed it ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)
... of the month of September, 1763, when I met the Charpillon, and from that day I began to die. If the lines of ascent and declination are equal, now, on the first day of November, 1797, I have about four more years of life to reckon on, which will pass by swiftly, according to the axiom 'Motus ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... the sun has reached the limit of his northern declination and now he will start to come south. Observed this day as holiday, and in the evening had hands aft to drink to the health of the King and the Expedition. All hands are happy, but miss the others at ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... It was soon discovered that the needle does not point, in all places, truly to the North Pole, but that it varies considerably in different degrees of longitude, and this is called the variation of the needle. It has also another variation, called the declination, or dip. The cause of these phenomena is still utterly unknown. The means of steering with almost perfect accuracy across the pathless ocean, gave a confidence to mariners, when they lost sight of land, which they had never before possessed, ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston
... 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 ...
— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer


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