as in slope
the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon
the path goes up at a pretty steep gradient before leveling off
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Recent Examples of gradient
Wedges are popping up in many collections this season, and Paris Texas’s Nina lace-up thong sandal, inspired by Y2K lingerie, shines with its galvanized wedge heel in color gradients.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
By using the same approach, researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) recently created multi-material, multi-responsive and multi-shape memory polymer (SMP) gradient metamaterials.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
Those stronger gradients boost efficiency and grounds osmotic generation in existing systems rather than the lab.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
With a color gamut of 99% DCI-P3, 99% Adobe RGB and 100% sRGB, KTC boasts that its 5K display can present richer hues and deeper gradients than Apple’s reference displays.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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While this does not sound terribly steep, this was in Earth's gravity — in the lower gravity of Mars, this would be equivalent to a 30 degree slope.—
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Demand for workers has been on a downward slope for much of this year.—
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LaCombe, who played forward in his youth, has shown great improvement in his own end but still has the offensive inclinations to be a point producer.—
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Redford also shared that despite his inclination to public service, his ambitions were not political.—
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Other disruptive technologies of the future could dent their incline.—
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In January, Unitree showcased its G1 robot’s smooth walking and running system, demonstrating agility, stability, and precise control on inclines and uneven terrain.—
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“Gradient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gradient. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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