gradient
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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
For example, a cyclist who suddenly hits a curb experiences a sharp velocity gradient when the bike stops but the rider's momentum continues forward.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
The “LA” monogram no longer includes gradient coloring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
“Time to recalibrate my gradient on the big picture,” one co-founder wrote to announce his last day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
He waited for the indigo gradient of the sky as the sun went down, until the first star of the evening.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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 researchers carried out what may be the most detailed simulation yet of magnetic fields interacting with unstable velocity gradients.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 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 options trading, there are gradients of success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
He droned on and on about dendrites and voltage gradients, but in my dream I couldn’t stop wondering how much of what I remembered about Jesse was truth and how much was fiction.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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