declinator

An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.

Noun

  1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
  2. A dissenter.
    • the Votes of the Declinators could not be heard for the noise - 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

Origin

Compare French déclinateur. See decline.

Forms

declinators