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
- noun A falling off, decay or descent.
- noun The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- noun The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- noun A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
variation — full definition
- noun A change, or the act of changing, in the form, amount, or quality of something.
- noun A version of something that differs somewhat from the original or from others of its kind.
- noun In music, a passage that reworks a melody with changes to rhythm, harmony, or ornamentation.