The act of declining or refusing something.
A weakening.
Downward movement, fall.
A reduction or diminution of activity.
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
To become weaker or worse.
To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
The act of impeding; that which impedes; a hindrance.
the ratio of sound pressure to volume flow rate treated as complex quantities.
A measure of the opposition to the flow of an alternating current in a circuit; the aggregation of its resistance, and inductive and capacitive reactances; the ratio of voltage to current treated as complex quantities.
a measure of opposition to motion of something subjected to a force; the ratio of force to velocity treated as complex quantities.