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n. A rate of inclination; a slope.

n. An ascending or descending part; an incline.

n. Physics The rate at which a physical quantity, such as temperature or pressure, increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.

n. Mathematics A vector having coordinate components that are the partial derivatives of a function with respect to its variables.

n. Biology A series of progressively increasing or decreasing differences in the growth rate, metabolism, or physiological activity of a cell, organ, or organism.

n. A slope or incline.

n. A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.

n. Of a function y = f(x) or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of y with respect to x, that is, the amount by which y changes for a certain (often unit) change in x.

n. The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.

n. A vector operator that maps each value of a scalar field to a vector equal to the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: φ

adj. Moving by steps; walking.

adj. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.

adj. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

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

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

n. The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it.

n. 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.

Moving by steps; walking; gressorial: ambulatory: opposed to saltatory: said either of animals or of their gait: in heraldry, said of a tortoise used as a bearing and represented in fesse.

In herpetology, walking or running on legs; specifically, of or pertaining to the Gradientia: correlated with salient and serpent.

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

n. Same as grade, 2.

n. In physics, the rate at which a variable quantity, as temperature or pressure, changes in value: as, thermometric gradient; barometric gradient.

n. In mathematics, a rational integral homogeneous and isobaric function.

n. In geometry, slope.

n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal

n. a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension

"And beneath this gradient is a scale of inborn ability, which is what gives the syllogism its unique potency."

initial gradient    anti-cyclonal gradient    velocity gradient    pressure gradient    temperature gradient    vertical gradient    barometric-gradient    ferrel's gradient formula    adiabatlc gradient    neutral gradient of pressure   

temperature gradient   

walking    grade    slop    hill    slope    incline    ramp   

radiant   

fluctuations    density    acceleration    slant    decrease    displacement    curvature    flux    measurement    vector