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 thedeclination orangle which aplane makes with thehorizontal plane. - noun obsolete A
dissenter .
Etymologies
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Compare French déclinateur. See decline.
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