reclination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rec=li=na=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

reclination, n. [Cf. F. réclinaison.].

•  The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.  [1913 Webster]
•  The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.  Brande & C.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

reclination

Horizontality

N horizontality, flatness, level, plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain), level, spirit level, horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant, horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.