Definition of inclinations Inclinations
/ɪˌnklʌnejˈʃʌnz/ - [inkluneyshunz] -
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What does inclinations mean?
Wiktionary 
- inclinations (Noun)
Plural of inclination.
Part of speech
🔤- inclinations, noun, plural of inclination.
WordNet
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| inclination - an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" | ||
| disposition, tendency | ||
| mental attitude, attitude a theatrical pose created for effect; "the actor struck just the right attitude" | ||
| direction a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm" | ||
| trend, drift, movement a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" | ||
| call (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee; "he was ejected for protesting the call" | ||
| denominationalism the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations | ||
| devices an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'; "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices" | ||
| sympathy, understanding an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" | ||
| favoritism, favouritism an inclination to favor some person or group | ||
| proclivity, propensity, leaning a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" | ||
| bent, set a special way of doing something; "he had a bent for it"; "he had a special knack for getting into trouble"; "he couldn't get the hang of it" | ||
| literalism the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature | ||
| perseveration the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | ||
| predisposition a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | ||
| favor, favour an act of gracious kindness | ||
| disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | ||
| partisanship, partiality an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | ||
| inclination - the act of inclining; bending forward; "an inclination of his head indicated his agreement" | ||
| inclining | ||
| motility, move, motion, movement ability to move spontaneously and independently | ||
| bob a short abrupt inclination (as of the head); "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement" | ||
| nod the act of nodding the head | ||
| inclination - that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking; "her inclination is for classical music" | ||
| disinclination that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his disinclination for modesty is well known" | ||
| liking a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" | ||
| propensity, leaning, tendency the act of deviating from a vertical position | ||
| stomach an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | ||
| inclination - (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | ||
| angle of inclination | ||
| angle a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons | ||
| geometry the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces | ||
| inclination - (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | ||
| inclination of an orbit | ||
| angle a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons | ||
| astronomy, uranology the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | ||
| inclination - a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" | ||
| tendency | ||
| disposition your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" | ||
| heterosis, hybrid vigor (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent | ||
| buoyancy the tendency to float in water or other liquid | ||
| electronegativity, negativity (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond | ||
| stainability (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes | ||
| inclination - the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" | ||
| tilt, list, lean, leaning | ||
| spatial relation, position the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | ||
| inclination - (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | ||
| dip, angle of dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination | ||
| angle a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons | ||
| natural philosophy, physics the science of matter and energy and their interactions; "his favorite subject was physics" | ||
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Wiktionary
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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inclination
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction. -
inclination
At an angle relative to a level plane or to another plane of reference.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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inclination
In geometry, is the mutual tendency of two lines or planes towards each other, so as to form an angle.
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In gunnery, the inclination of a plane is the angle it makes with the horizon either above or below.
Wikipedia 
- Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction. The axial tilt is described as the angle made by the planet's axis and a line drawn through the planet's center perpendicular to the orbital plane.
Part of speech
🔤- inclination, noun, singular of inclinations.
