declination

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Declination memos are summaries that outline why prosecutors decline to file charges against officers; they eventually become public records.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2023

When the groups or constellations are not known, then any individual star can be readily found by means of its Right Ascension, and Declination.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

As for the time of its Formation, it is four-fold, viz. the Beginning, Increase, State, and Declination, wherein altogether different Remedies are to be apply'd.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

Then the situation would, roughly, look like this:   BC = Altitude of the sun, AB = Zenith Distance and DB = Sun's Declination.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet

Put in your Note-Book: North Declination is expressed +.

From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet