Word Meanings - DECLINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining

Additional info about word: DECLINATION

The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 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." Bacon. Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay. Waller. 3. 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. 4. The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECLINATION)

• Dip
• Declination
• depression
• devexity
• slope

Related words: (words related to DECLINATION)

• DECLINATION
  The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward. (more info) 1. The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head. 2. The act or state of falling off or declining
• SLOPE
  1. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another. 2. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon. buildings
• SLOPENESS
  State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.
• DEPRESSION
  The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon. (more info) 1. The act of depressing. 2. The state of being depressed; a sinking. 3. A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness
• DEVEXITY
  A bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity. Davies
• SLOPEWISE
  Obliquely. Carew.
• ASLOPE
  Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.