Declination is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECLINATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the angular distance north or south from the celestial equator measured along a great circle passing through the celestial poles
• the angular deviation of a compass needle from true north (because the magnetic north pole and the geographic north pole do not coincide).
• the angular distance of a point north or south of the celestial equator
• formal refusal
• The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
• The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
• The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
• The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
• The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
• 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.
• The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
• a downward slope or bend
• (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
• a polite refusal of an invitation

Words related to DECLINATION

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Words that contain DECLINATION

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How to use DECLINATION in a sentence

• The horizontal declination was also ascertained at both these stations by a full set of observations upon six different needles.
• Strange Absurdity of the Epicureans, who endeavour to account for the Nature of the Soul by the Declination of Atoms.
• The Epicureans cast a Mist before their own Eyes by endeavouring to explain the Liberty of Man by the Declination of Atoms.
• As will be remembered, Wright persisting in his declination, George M.
• The sun, going into northern declination, was straight overhead.
• Maria has obtained its right ascension and declination, and will not suffer me to announce it.
• On the evening of the 5th its right ascension was found to be about 0 hours 13 minutes 0 seconds, and declination about 13 degrees 0 minutes South.
• A thin compass card divided into degrees is fitted on the edge of this disk for the declination circle.
• This needle is adjusted to the degree to set the pointer in declination and when set, the pointer is clamped with the bolt at the center.
• This can be approximately obtained by a good compass, and allowance made for the magnetic declination at your own place.
• Then set the pointer D to the declination of the object, say Venus at the date of observation.
• The declination axis must be perpendicular to both the hour axis and the line of sight over the pointer.
• All set screws, excepting those on the declination axis, are tightened.
• With the declination axis in an approximately horizontal position the place where the pointer cuts the horizon is noted.
• It is desirable that the hour circle should read approximately zero when the declination axis is horizontal, but this is not necessary for a reason soon to be explained.
• To find a star in the heavens, look up its declination and right ascension in an atlas.
• DECLINATION, the angular distance of a celestial body north or south from the celestial equator.
• Eight days afterward, the declination of the southwestern end was twenty-four degrees and thirty minutes south.
• It had a declination of eight degrees, and it pointed southwestward to the sign of the Scorpion, which is the sign of Manila.

Similar words containing CLINA without suffix tion and without prefix de

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