declinator

Compare French déclinateur. See decline.

declinator (plural declinators)

1. An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
2. (obsolete) A dissenter.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

     the Votes of the Declinators could not be heard for the noise

• “declinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• centroidal

dēclīnātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of dēclīnō

Borrowed from French declinateur.

declinator n (plural declinatoare)

1. declinometer