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steepness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Steepness  \Steep"ness\,  n. 
  1.  Quality  or  state  of  being  steep;  precipitous  declivity; 
  as  the  steepnessof  a  hill  or  a  roof. 
 
  2.  Height;  loftiness.  [Obs.]  --Chapman. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  steepness 
  n  :  the  property  possessed  by  a  slope  that  is  very  steep  [syn:  {abruptness}, 
  {precipitousness}]  [ant:  {gradualness}] 




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