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
Before going further, let us review a few facts about Declination.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
Campani to M. Hugens, who being persuaded, that the Declination of the Ring is not above 23 deg.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
Declination 4� 59' N. Thence ship ran to noon 109�, true course, 46 miles, when the latitude by meridian altitude of the sun was found to be 25� 52' S. Required corrected longitude at noon.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
The Declination of any point in the celestial sphere is its distance in arc, North or South of the celestial equator, i.e.,
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
