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Dec   /dɛk/   Listen
Dec

noun
1.
The last (12th) month of the year.  Synonym: December.
2.
(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere.  Synonyms: celestial latitude, declination.



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"Dec" Quotes from Famous Books



... length so that a receiving wire adjusted for such a wave could only receive it. [There seems to be implied in these words an arrangement known as the Slaby-Arco system, which American readers have had described for them by M.A. Frederick, Collins, Sci. Amer., March 9 and Dec. 28, 1901.—Editor.] The receiver consisted of iron filings in which later ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... do that Martin, remember it well," said the good man, "that was the night the Taybridge was blown down, it was a Sunday night the 28th of Dec. '79." ...
— Real Ghost Stories • William T. Stead

... the Union into the European contest, in aid of the French Republic. Some idea may be obtained of the excitement which prevailed at this time, and of the perilous condition of the country, by an extract or two from letters of Vice-President John Adams. In a letter dated Philadelphia, Dec. 5, 1793, ...
— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

... Beza to Calvin, Dec. 14, 1562, Baum, ii., App., 196. The authority of Beza, who had recently returned from a mission on which he had been sent by Conde to Germany and Switzerland and who wrote from the camp, is certainly to be ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... was closed, DeC. and I began to talk of the war; and he expressed the opinions then entertained, beyond a doubt, by a majority of U. S. army and naval officers. They believed it to be the intention of the Government to bring the seceding States back into the Union, with their rights ...
— The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner • John Wilkinson


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