Definition of Declinational

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Declinational

declawed
declawing
declaws
declension
declensional
declensionism
declensionist
declensionists
declensions
declimb
declinability
declinable
declinal
declinate
declination
declinational (current term)
declinations
declinator
declinators
declinatory
declinature
declinatures
decline
decline in quality
declined
decliner
decliners
declines
declinest
declineth

Literary usage of Declinational

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Similarly, ft cos 22' — B, the declinational correction to »:m, is called Sj^m. ... If i be the mean interval, and 22i its declinational correction, Now, ..."

2. Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait, Sir George Howard Darwin (1888)
"The lunar diurnal declinational. 6. The luni-solar semi-diurnal ... The solar diurnal declinational. 9. The lunar quarter-diurnal, or first shallow-water ..."

3. Scientific Papers by George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Ernest William Brown (1907)
"C. declinational Correction to Lunar Semi-diurnal Tide. A declinational correction has also to be applied to Rm, say K, IJ,,,; to *,„, say 82*m; to i, ..."

4. Popular Lectures and Addresses by William Thomson Kelvin (1891)
"It is almost certain that the slow variation of the lunar declinational tides due to the retrogression of the nodes of the moon's orbit, may be dealt with ..."

5. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry: Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her by Robert Main, Great Britain Admiralty (1871)
"The lunar fortnightly and solar semiannual (declinational). Two.—The lunar monthly and solar annual ... The lunar and solar diurnal (declinational). Two. ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on the Tides by James Pearson, John William Lubbock (1881)
"Two The lunar fortnightly and solar semi-annual (declinational). Four The lunar and solar diurnal ... Two The lunar and solar declinational semi-diurnal ..."

7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the height of lunar tide with its declinational and parallactic corrections, and similarly the formula for /i in (82) gives its value and corrections. ..."

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