Rē'cli-nā'tion, n.

n. [O. Fr. réclination, N. Fr. réclinaison, Sp. reclinacion.]

1. The act of leaning or reclining.
2. (Dialing.) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in an horizontal line. Brande.
3. (Surg.) 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.