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gradient

[gray-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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“My guess is where that leads is just a lower gradient of returns from here, i.e., as earnings growth slows, the extent to which the market appreciates slows, but on net still positive,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Around 300 National Trust staff and volunteers will be involved, carrying about 17 tonnes of fresh chalk up the steep hillside, which in places has a gradient of roughly one in three.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

"So that's really the main key: to have a steady, large-scale gradient in velocity," he emphasizes.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

When the researchers repeated the simulations without maintaining the large-scale velocity gradient, the organized magnetic structures never formed.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

She knew exactly where the gradient shifted to put it into neutral.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The coffers have their own rhythm; indirect lighting turns the hollows into shadow gradients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Weak offshore gradients that bring warm desert air to the coast add to the heat, said Robbie Monroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

And "part of the novelty of this work is functional gradients exist everywhere in biology," the researcher said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

At the same time, these events unfold within constantly changing physical conditions such as voltage fields, chemical gradients, ionic diffusion, and time-varying conductances.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 24, 2025

In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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