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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

... railway" hauls you up a gradient of 1 in 1 3/4 from the station on the shore in ten minutes. At first the sensation on looking down is queer, but you soon think nothing of it. The air is very fine, the weather lovely, the feeding unexceptionable, and the only drawback consists in the "javelins," as old Francis Head ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... you call it a basin, the vast plain through which it runs, the savannah which on all sides stretches out of sight, without a hill to give a gradient, without a ...

— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne

... of scores of shells hurrying all together through the air. Every five minutes or so a certain howitzer, tucked into some hiding-place, vents its periodical growl, and we can hear the huge projectile climbing slowly, up his steep gradient with a hiss like that of water from a fire-hose. There is some other heavy shell which passes us also, somewhere in the middle of his flight. We cannot distinguish the report of the gun, and we do not hear the shell burst; but at regular intervals we can quite distinctly hear ...

— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean

... cowardly surrender to sin. Surely Peter must have "trimmed" many times in the days which preceded his actual discipleship. Great crises do not make men, they reveal them. The men have been made in the smaller issues which go before. We march to our crises by a gradient, every step of which is a moral decision. The interior of the tree is secretly eaten away by white ants; the tempest reveals and completes ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... long, deep monotone, or a goat's call trembled from nowhere to nowhere. But mostly there was a silence which buzzed with a multitude of small winged life. Going up the hills the Philosopher bent forward to the gradient, stamping vigorously as he trod, almost snorting like a bull in the pride of successful energy. Coming down the slope he braced back and let his legs loose to do as they pleased. Didn't they know their business—Good ...

— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens

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