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noun

Gradient n.

1.

The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

2.

A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

3.

The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.

4.

(Chem., Biochem.) The variation of the concentration of a chemical substance in solution through some linear path; also called concentration gradient; usually measured in concentration units per unit distance. Concentration gradients are created naturally, e.g. by the diffusion of a substance from a point of high concentration toward regions of lower concentration within a body of liquid; in laboratory techniques they may be made artificially. gradient maker (Biochem.) a device which creates a concentration gradient in a solution within some apparatus; used, e. g., for separation of biochemical substances.

Gradient post, a post or stake indicating by its height or by marks on it the grade of a railroad, highway, or embankment, etc., at that spot.

adjective

Gradient adj.

1.

Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.

2.

Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.

3.

Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

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Etymology of 'Gradient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gradient" Quotes from Famous Books

... failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever. But there is no warning sign-post at the turn of the road; and already their feet were nearing it, without knowledge that its easy gradient slips into the Valley ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

... as our objective, we left Boulogne the next morning at ten o'clock. To speak more accurately, we left the hotel at ten o'clock and Boulogne itself some forty minutes later. The negotiation of an up-gradient leading out of the town ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... them, the superior morale of his men would outweigh it. A short delay was necessary while the cavalry climbed the hill, exposed to the enemy's fire. But when the fight began, the Treviri tumbled headlong down the hill like a house falling. Some of our cavalry, who had ridden round by an easier gradient, captured several Belgic chieftains, ...

— Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II • Caius Cornelius Tacitus

... in the evening of the following day, having passed the time pleasantly in Paris, the train bore them swiftly beyond Pontarlier and down the steep gradient of the Gorges de l'Areuse towards Neuchatel. The Val de Travers, through which the railway slips across the wooded Jura into Switzerland, is like a winding corridor cleft deep between savage and precipitous walls. There ...

— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever. But there is no warning sign-post at the turn of the road; and already their feet were nearing it, without knowledge that its easy gradient slips into the ...

— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver

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