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gradient

[grey-dee-uhnt] / ˈgreɪ di ənt /


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At the same time, the degree of permeability within those fractured regions was influenced by the Earth's geothermal gradient and the composition of the crust.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 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

The word “Coachella” is placed in free-flowing sprawl across the top, punctuated with a forest green gradient and bright orange stroke.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 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

PIH believed in sending resources directly to Cange, down “the steep gradient of inequality.”

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 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

The new model suggests that active membrane fluctuations could push ions in the opposite direction, working against those gradients.

From Science Daily Dec. 16, 2025

Generally colliery tips were located on steep hillsides, whereas Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds sit "on ground with gentle gradients", with differences too in terms of how they were constructed and their drainage systems, they said.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

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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