Declination

Noun

 * 1) At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
 * 2) At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
 * 3) A refusal.
 * 4)  Declension.
 * 5)  Deviation.

Thesaurus
Cartesian coordinates, aberrancy, aberration, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abscissa, altitude, azimuth, bend, bias, branching off, cascade, cataract, chucking, chucking out, chute, circuitousness, collapse, comedown, contempt, contradiction, coordinates, corner, crash, crook, crosswiseness, curve, cylindrical coordinates, debacle, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declinature, decline, declining, deflection, deflexure, defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denial, departure, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, deprivation, derogation, descending, descension, descent, despisal, despising, deterioration, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, devolution, diagonality, digression, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, discursion, dismissal, disobedience, disownment, disregard, dissent, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drift, drifting, drop, dropping, dying, ebb, ebbing, effeteness, equator coordinates, errantry, exception, exclusion, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling, falling-off, gravitation, hairpin, holding back, ignoring, inclination, indirection, indirectness, involution, lapse, latitude, longitude, loss of tone, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, noncompliance, nonconformity, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, obliqueness, obliquity, ordinate, passing by, pererration, plummeting, polar coordinates, pounce, putting away, putting out, rambling, rapids, rebuff, recantation, refusal, regression, rejection, renouncement, repudiation, repulse, retention, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, right ascension, scouting, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, skewness, slant, slippage, slump, spurning, squint, stoop, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, swoop, tack, throwing out, thumbs-down, transverseness, turn, turndown, turning, turning out, twist, unwillingness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, wane, waning, warp, waterfall, withholding, yaw, zigzag

Etymology
From declinacioun, from  declination, from  declinatio.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отклонение, деклинация
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


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 * Bulgarian: деклинация
 * Finnish:
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 * German:
 * Italian:
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 * Bulgarian:

Related terms

 * decline

Derived terms

 * magnetic declination

Anagrams

 * nonciliated