How do you use Declinations in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Declinations meaning
plural of declination
Using Declinations
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of declination
- In the example corpus, declinations often appears in combinations such as: declinations of.
Context around Declinations
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Declinations
- In this selection, "declinations" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, changing, maximum, phd and less stand out and add context to how "declinations" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and maximum declinations of the and declinations with magnitudes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "declinations" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with declinations
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Minor planet 51 Nemausa and the fundamental system of declinations, PhD thesis, 1957 *95. (14 words)
Solar positioning While the stars are fixed to their declinations the Sun is not. (14 words)
Four more give the minimum and maximum declinations of the full moon: in summer, and in winter. (17 words)
The arrow-straight lines linked to the figure appear to have been set to track the through the ages the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion’s belt. (30 words)
Right ascensions are measured eastward along the celestial equator from the equinox, and declinations are measured positive northward from the celestial equator - two such coordinate pairs are shown here. (29 words)
This similarly occurs in the Southern Hemisphere for objects with declinations less (i.e. more negative) than −90° − φ (where φ is always a negative number for southern latitudes). (29 words)
Example sentences (8)
The arrow-straight lines linked to the figure appear to have been set to track the through the ages the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion’s belt.
Declinations with magnitudes greater than 90° do not occur, because the poles are the northernmost and southernmost points of the celestial sphere.
Four more give the minimum and maximum declinations of the full moon: in summer, and in winter.
Minor planet 51 Nemausa and the fundamental system of declinations, PhD thesis, 1957 *95.
Right ascensions are measured eastward along the celestial equator from the equinox, and declinations are measured positive northward from the celestial equator - two such coordinate pairs are shown here.
Solar positioning While the stars are fixed to their declinations the Sun is not.
The declinations of Solar System objects change very rapidly compared to those of stars, due to orbital motion and close proximity.
This similarly occurs in the Southern Hemisphere for objects with declinations less (i.e. more negative) than −90° − φ (where φ is always a negative number for southern latitudes).
Common combinations with declinations
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- declinations of 3×