Declination Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Declination

atrophy
A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use:
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declension
(Grammar): A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
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decline
The process or result of declining, especially:
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degeneration
(Biology) The evolutionary decline or loss of a function, characteristic, or structure in an organism or species.
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deterioration
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
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failure
The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends:
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regrets
Plural form of regret
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celestial latitude
(Astron.) The angular distance of a celestial body from the ecliptic
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dec
Alternative spelling of Dec..
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descent
A downward slope
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declivity
A downward bend in a path
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fall
A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance:
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downslope
A downward slope.
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degeneracy
A degenerate action
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Antonyms for Declination

improvement
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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Words Related to Declination

better
Advantage
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increase
An increasing or becoming increased
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magnetic-declination
(Military, nautical, navigation) The angle between the magnetic and geographical meridians at any place, expressed in degrees east or west to indicate the direction of magnetic north from true north. In nautical and aeronautical navigation, the term magnetic variation is used instead of magnetic declination and the angle is termed variation of the compass or magnetic variation. Magnetic declination is not otherwise synonymous with magnetic variation which refers to regular or irregular change with time of the magnetic declination, dip, or intensity.
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equatorial coordinate system
A celestial coordinate system in which an object's position on the celestial sphere is described in terms of its north-south declination and east-west right ascension, measured relative to the celestial equator and vernal equinox, respectively.
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azimuth
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J2000
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ecliptic
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galactic-latitude
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galactic-longitude
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GSC-2
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B1950
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10deg
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6deg
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Declination Sentence Examples

  • The Repsolds find it unnecessary to relieve the friction of the declination axis.

  • Of these methods Bessel generally employed the first because of its simplicity, notwithstanding that it involved a resetting of the right ascension and declination of the axis of the tube with each reversal of the segments.

  • The declination axis rests on bearings attached to opposite sides of the polar axis.

  • The microscopes adjoining 82 read the position and declination circles; for, by an ingenious arrangement of prisms and screens, the images of both circles can be read by each single microscope as shown in fig.

  • The circles for position angle and declination are read by micrometer-microscopes illuminated by the lamp L; the scales are illuminated by the lamp 1.

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