gradient
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- n a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension
- n the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
a five-degree gradient
- To begin with, the difference between comic book subgenres has long been smeared into a smooth gradient.
- I started in chemistry and then proceeded up the gender gradient to physics, finally achieving in Classical Mechanics the exalted status of only girl in the class.
- But consider also that a "social gradient of health" exists even among the rich: the outlandishly wealthy live healthier and longer than the rich, who live better than the merely .