declination

1. (countable, uncountable)At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.

   Deklination, Missweisung, Ortsmissweisung

   склоне́ниеsklonénije

2. (countable, uncountable)At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.

   Deklination

   склоне́ниеsklonénije

3. (countable, uncountable)A refusal.

   a polite refusal of an invitation

4. (countable, uncountable)The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.

5. (countable, uncountable)Declension.

6. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The act or state of bending downward; inclination.

   declination of the head

7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.

   a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

8. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Deviation.

   November 2, 1690, Robert South, Sinners Inexcusable from Natural Religion Only every violation of and declination from the rules

1. There are no declinations in Portuguese.

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2. How many declinations are there in German?

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3. In Chinese there's no grammatical genders, no plural forms, no declinations, and no conjugations either.

   deIm Chinesischen gibt es weder ein Genus, noch einen Plural, noch eine Deklination und auch keine Konjugation.

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