DECLINATION

noun the act of inflecting a word; declension. ·see decline, ·vt, 4.

2. declination ·noun the act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.

3. declination ·noun the act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.

4. declination ·noun the act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

5. declination ·noun the angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.

6. declination ·noun the act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.

7. declination ·noun 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.