Declination Synonyms and Antonyms

dĕklə-nāshən
Descent to a lower level or condition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. decline
  2. atrophy
  3. decadence
  4. declension
  5. degeneracy
  6. degeneration
  7. deterioration
Antonyms:
  1. improvement
A marked loss of strength or effectiveness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. decline
  2. deterioration
  3. descent
  4. declivity
  5. fall
  6. failure
  7. declension
  8. downslope
A polite refusal of an invitation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. regrets
(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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. celestial latitude
  2. dec

Words Related to Declination

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. better
  2. increase
  3. equatorial coordinate system
  4. magnetic-declination
  5. right-ascension
  6. azimuth
  7. J2000
  8. ecliptic
  9. galactic-latitude
  10. galactic-longitude
  11. GSC-2
  12. B1950
  13. 10deg
  14. 6deg

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.

  • I, 2 and 3), used to bolt the head of one of the screws, and the instrument was provided with a slipping piece, giving motion to the micrometer by screws acting on two slides, one in right ascension, the other in declination, so that " either of the, webs can be placed upon either component of a double star with ease and certainty (Mem.

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