gradient

gradient has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
• a.. Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
• a.. Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
• n.. The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
• n.. A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.
• n.. The rate of increase or decrease of a variable magnitude, or the curve which represents it; as, a thermometric gradient.
• n.. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal; "a five-degree gradient"
• n.. a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension