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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



... illimitable forest in their rear. Their provisions were scanty. They grew watchful of the strange soil, of the new skies, of the unknown climate. Even upon the voyage over, John Winthrop thought that "the declination of the pole star was much, even to the view, beneath that it is in England," and that "the new moon, when it first appeared, was much smaller than at any time he had seen it in England." Here was a ...
— The American Spirit in Literature, - A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Bliss Perry
... the Arctic Regions," says: "The geographical determination of the direction and intensity of the magnetic forces at different points of the earth's surface has been regarded as an object worthy of especial research. To examine in different parts of the globe, the declination, inclination and intensity of the magnetic force, and their periodical and secular variations, and mutual relations and dependencies could be duly investigated only ...
— The Smoky God • Willis George Emerson
... cardinal and tropical sign Capricorn on the 22nd, attaining his greatest austral declination at ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 10, Issue 285, December 1, 1827 • Various
... 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 Cape Evans. I pray to God we may soon be clear of this prison ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... date may be traced the declination of Napoleon's greatness. In the field he was generally unsuccessful, and occasionally murmurs of discontent were whispered by citizen and soldier. The plot thickens in the eight volume, and his abdication of the throne of France, and subsequent ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Supplementary Number, Issue 263, 1827 • Various


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