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gradient

[gray-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“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

Hussle even selected the cover art: a gradient blue photo of the two rappers chilling with friends at the Hollywood Roosevelt, the hotel they frequented during the recording of the album.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The first involved adding a constantly renewed velocity gradient into the simulations.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

En route, traveling the gradient of bombykol, he notes the presence of other males, heading in the same direction, all in a good mood, inclined to race for the sheer sport of it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

A weaker AMOC, he argues, could sharpen the temperature contrast between northern and southern Europe - one of the gradients that helps drive storms and other extremes.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The team suspected these gradients could play a major role in shaping magnetic fields.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

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

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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