reclination
English
Etymology
Compare French réclinaison.
Noun
reclination (countable and uncountable, plural reclinations)
- The act of leaning or reclining.
- The angle made by the plane of a dial with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
- (surgery) 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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reclination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)