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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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