English Explanatory Dictionary

reclination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of leaning or reclining.
  2. The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
  3. Removal of a cataract by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.

Word forms

reclination reclinations

Etymology

Compare French réclinaison.

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