Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle, and for observing its variations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) An instrument for measuring the declination of the magnetic needle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An instrument for measuring
magnetic declination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an instrument for measuring magnetic declination
Etymologies
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From decline (through Middle English and Old French from the Latin de- "down" + clinare "to bend") + -meter
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. SMITH: ... with the declinometer itself, I was thumbing through a dictionary ....
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You know, like, I guess, a gas gauge would be a declinometer?
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