Search:declination -> DECLINATION
declination
d e c l i n a t i o n hex:#100;#101;#99;#108;#105;#110;#97;#116;#105;#111;#110;
The Salt of the World?
- Declination - n. - The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
- Declination - n. - The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.
- Declination - n. - The act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.
- Declination - n. - The act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.
- Declination - n. - The angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.
- Declination - n. - 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.
- Declination - n. - The act of inflecting a word; declension. See Decline, v. t., 4.
- Sector - n. - An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
- Renunciation - n. - Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
- Equatorial - n. - An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed, even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.
- Declination - n. - The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.
- Declinatory - a. - Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
- Declinometer - n. - An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
- Analemma - n. - A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.
- Low - adv. - In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
- Declinator - n. - An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.