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déclinaison — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • declension noun A falling off, decay or descent.
  • variation noun A change, or the act of changing, in the form, amount, or quality of something.

Senses

déclinaison is used for these senses in English:

  • variation (nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.

declension — full definition

  1. noun A falling off, decay or descent.
  2. noun The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
  3. noun The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
  4. noun A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

variation — full definition

  1. noun A change, or the act of changing, in the form, amount, or quality of something.
  2. noun A version of something that differs somewhat from the original or from others of its kind.
  3. noun In music, a passage that reworks a melody with changes to rhythm, harmony, or ornamentation.

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