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decl

decl is the abbreviation of declaration.

decl is the abbreviation of declination.

Meaning of declaration

Noun

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

  1. An emphatic or formal act of saying, telling or asserting something, by speech or writing; a decisive assertion or proclamation.
    • The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair […].1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    Synonyms:
    avowal, notice, statement
  2. (archaic) Specifically, a declaration of love.
    • I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
  3. A list of items for various legal purposes, e.g. customs declaration.
    Synonyms:
    notice, statement
  4. The act or process of declaring.
    Synonyms:
    notice, profession
  5. The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.
  6. In common law, the formal document specifying plaintiff's cause of action, including the facts necessary to sustain a proper cause of action, and to advise the defendant of the grounds upon which he is being sued.

See all 7 meanings of declaration

Meaning of declination

Noun

declination (countable and uncountable, plural declinations)

  1. At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
  2. At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the earth and the equatorial plane.
    Synonyms:
    δ
  3. A refusal.
    • the queen's declination from marriage1746, Arthur Collins, Letters And Memorials Of State In the Reigns of Queen Mary
  4. The gradual decline in the overall fundamental frequency or pitch of speech over the course of an utterance, independent of local variations such as tones and pitch accents.
  5. (obsolete or non-native speakers' English) Declension.
  6. (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
    • declination of the head

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Questions about decl

What is decl the abbreviation of?
Decl is the abbreviation of declaration.

Words near decl in the dictionary

  1. decktop
  2. decktops
  3. deckward
  4. deckwise
  5. decky
  6. decl
  7. decl.
  8. declaim
  9. declaimant
  10. declaimants
  11. declaimed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decl (page history and authors); declaration (page history and authors); declination (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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