Thesaurus: gradient

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1. a. Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
2. a. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
3. a. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
4. n. The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
5. n. A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
6. n. The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
7. n. a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension
8. n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
9. 1. Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins. 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 birsds. 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. 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.
10. Any member like a step, as the raised back of an altar or thelike; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater."Layard.
11. n:100 n. a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal