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Noun: gradient  grey-dee-unt
  1. A graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension
     
  2. The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
    "a five-degree gradient";
    - slope

Derived forms: gradients

Type of: change, position, spatial relation

Encyclopedia: Gradient

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