gradient
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5.2
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪdiənt/
- Specialized
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gradiente
- Water moves through soils on the basis of an energy gradient from high to low energy.
- selection gradient
- income gradient
- health gradient
You get rainbow or gradient colors on your text.
- You get rainbow or gradient colors on your text.
- This is an alternate, not as good scoring for gradient direction function.
- It was this, this orange, blue, you know, gradient.
Examples
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Detailed measurements of the ocean's vertical temperature gradient suggest that mixing rates are much smaller.
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The climatic gradient in Taylor Valley also produces a gradient in salt distribution.
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Looks like we have the beginning of a temperature gradient at 50 feet.
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When you go up in space, that's pressure gradient changes.
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By young adulthood, the income gradient in health is well established in both of these countries.
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A series of articles examining the income gradient in health among children has produced conflicting findings.
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Although general health status tended to exhibit a positive social gradient, the effects were not always statistically significant.
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Bacteria typically use chemical gradients to determine the location of food sources.
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No study to date has compared socioeconomic gradients in health throughout life.
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The temperature gradient increased as we moved deeper into the cave, making it feel much colder.
Synonyms
6
9.6
The rate a function changes at a point
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
2
5.3
A change in temperature over a distance, for example up a mountain
- Specialized
1
6.0
A gradual change in the amount of a dissolved substance from high to low across a space
- Specialized
A difference in pull between parts of an object that causes tides and affects satellites
How Rapid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gradient also comes from the Latin gradus 'step', so you can picture change happening 'step by step'. That is why a gradient shows a gradual change in value or amount across a distance, like color or temperature on a map.