meaning of gradient

1. Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
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.
4.
The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
5.
A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
6.
The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
7.
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree ">gradient"


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