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declinations
n. (plural of declination English)
Usage examples of "declinations".
After making an intensive computer-aided study of stellar alignments at Nazca, she has concluded that the famous spider figure was devised as a terrestrial diagram of the giant constellation of Orion, and that the arrow-straight lines linked to the figure appear to have been set out to track through the ages the changing declinations of the three stars of Orion’s Belt.
I think it might suggest changes in the declinations of stars visible in the sky over a particular part of the world in past epochs.
And if the pot were turned they would work themselves into their former declinations, making their conversion by the East.