noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a steep gradient formal (= a steep slope – used especially when talking about how steep something is )
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The Snowdon Mountain Railway has the steepest gradient of any locomotive track in Britain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
steep
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It is possible that the steep age gradient observed in Figure 5.1 is mainly due to these factors.
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I am sure this must be the steepest natural gradient of temperature on the surface of our planet.
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The railway bridge at this point represented the steepest gradient on the whole system at 1:16.
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It is the steep temperature gradient that makes it possible for us to work black smokers with a large measure of safety.
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The steepest gradient is 3.3 %, and the minimum curve radius is 400m.
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There were some steep gradients , particularly Anerley Hill, leading up the Crystal Palace.
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The main objects of this alignment are to achieve a short wheel base, and a fairly steep gradient .
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There are very few, if any, abrupt breaks in climate, only steeper and less steep climatic gradients .
■ NOUN
concentration
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Again a vertical stable salt concentration gradient is set up, and a heat source introduced.
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Here, the continuing water diuresis may have washed out the medullary concentration gradient and led to a protracted concentrating defect.
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Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow soas to point down the concentration gradient .
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In diffusion, particles flow down the concentration gradient .
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This morphogen concentration gradient can thus be used to determine the position of the cells.
density
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The role of the density gradient depends on its sign.
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A variation of this method makes use of a density gradient column.
pressure
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Furthermore the hepatic vein wedge pressure-inferior vena caval mean pressure gradient was normal.
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The PU-980 intelligent pump has built-in system controller functions for complex ternary low pressure and binary high pressure gradients .
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Similar processes often occur in the presence of a pressure gradient .
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All patients but one had increased portal pressure gradient .
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Movement in these circumstances is over short distances and occurs down a pressure gradient .
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The computed value of fracture initiation pressure gradient was found to be 1.02 psi/ft.
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This may indicate that other factors also play an important role in increasing hepatic venous pressure gradient in acute liver failure.
temperature
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Palaeoclimate reconstructions indicate that the meridional temperature gradients decrease, and poleward heat flow increases, as global mean temperature increases.
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The temperature gradient just above the core would become much steeper, for example, causing a much hotter boundary layer.
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If the material is a poor conductor, as most polymers are, temperature gradients inescapably exist and heat will therefore flow.
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It is the steep temperature gradient that makes it possible for us to work black smokers with a large measure of safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Climbing back up the one in 4 gradient requires extraordinary reserves of stamina as well.
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He widened it, evened out the gradients and put in sweeping curves.
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Here, the continuing water diuresis may have washed out the medullary concentration gradient and led to a protracted concentrating defect.
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I am sure this must be the steepest natural gradient of temperature on the surface of our planet.
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Instead we guess that the shrimp are detecting gradients of light.
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The gradient in the horizontal size ratio is referred to as differential horizontal perspective.
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The route has a ruling gradient of one in 49 with one section at one in 29.
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They can also provide the spontaneous formation of gradients.