DEC

Pronunciation (US):

• DEC (noun)
  The noun DEC has 2 senses:

1. the last (12th) month of the year
2. (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

  Familiarity information: DEC used as a noun is rare.

• DEC (noun)

Meaning:

The last (12th) month of the year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Dec; December

Hypernyms ("Dec" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Dec"):

December 31; New Year's Eve (the last day of the year)

Christmas; Christmas Day; Dec 25; Xmas (a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

Christmas; Christmastide; Christmastime; Noel; Yule; Yuletide (period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6)

mid-December (the middle part of December)

Holonyms ("Dec" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

Meaning:

(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

celestial latitude; dec; declination

Hypernyms ("dec" is a kind of...):

angular distance (the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)