3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gradient \Gra"di*ent\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gradient \Gra"di*ent\, a. [L. gradiens, p. pr of gradi to step,
to go See {Grade}.]
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 birds.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gradient
n 1: a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity
or dimension
2: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs
from the horizontal [syn: {slope}]
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