Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument used in ascertaining the declination, as in dialing, of a plane, and in astronomy, of the stars. Also declinatory.
  • noun One who declines to join or agree with another; a dissentient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
  • noun rare A dissentient.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
  • noun obsolete A dissenter.

Etymologies

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Compare French déclinateur. See decline.

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