Gradient
noun
The degree of steepness of a graph at any point.
The gradient of this line is greater than that of the other.
Often appears as...
- steep gradient
- positive gradient
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Technical
noun
Rate of increase or decrease of a variable value.
The temperature gradient decreases as we go higher up in the atmosphere.
Often appears as...
- pressure gradient
- temperature gradient
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Technical
noun
A gradual change of a quantity or quality.
There is a gradient of color from light to dark in this painting.
Often appears as...
- color gradient
- sound gradient
noun
A place where ground levels rise or fall.
There is a steep gradient to this part of the hill.
Often appears as...
- steep gradient
- gentle gradient
noun
The degree of steepness of a graph at any point.
The gradient of this line is greater than that of the other.
Often appears as...
- steep gradient
- positive gradient
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Rate of increase or decrease of a variable value.
The temperature gradient decreases as we go higher up in the atmosphere.
Often appears as...
- pressure gradient
- temperature gradient
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A gradual change of a quantity or quality.
There is a gradient of color from light to dark in this painting.
Often appears as...
- color gradient
- sound gradient
noun
A place where ground levels rise or fall.
There is a steep gradient to this part of the hill.
Often appears as...
- steep gradient
- gentle gradient
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Pro Tip 1/2Graph Visual
Imagine a hill when thinking of graph gradients - steepness indicates rapid change.
As we moved from left to right, the graph's gradient showed a steep increase.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive vs Negative
Positive gradient goes up to the right, while negative descends to the right.
The line's negative gradient indicates a decrease in values.
Pro Tip 1/2Graph Visual
Imagine a hill when thinking of graph gradients - steepness indicates rapid change.
As we moved from left to right, the graph's gradient showed a steep increase.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive vs Negative
Positive gradient goes up to the right, while negative descends to the right.
The line's negative gradient indicates a decrease in values.
Pro Tip 1/2Graph Visual
Imagine a hill when thinking of graph gradients - steepness indicates rapid change.
As we moved from left to right, the graph's gradient showed a steep increase.
Pro Tip 2/2Positive vs Negative
Positive gradient goes up to the right, while negative descends to the right.
The line's negative gradient indicates a decrease in values.
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Making waves: The power...
That's what happens along a concentration gradient, as substances shift passively from a high, or squashed, concentration, to a lower, more comfortable one. How does this relate to ocean currents and thermohaline circulation? Thermo means temperature, and haline means salt because in the real world scenario of the sea,
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Michael Levin: The...
amazingly, there is an electrical gradient, head to tail, that's generated that tells the piece where the heads and the tails go and in fact, how many heads or tails you're supposed to have. So what we learned to do is to manipulate this electrical gradient, and the important thing is that we don't apply electricity.
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How I found a mythical...
to better constrain the problem and better understand the system, but from what the data is telling us now, it looks to be the result of a large hydrothermal system. Basically, it works like So, the deeper you go into the earth, the hotter it gets. We refer to this as the geothermal gradient.
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The mysterious origins...
The first life form wouldn’t have had other organisms to consume, of course, so it must have been an autotroph, generating energy either from the sun or from chemical gradients. So what locations meet these criteria? Places on land or close to the surface of the ocean
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This deep-sea mystery is...
it's enough. So if these deep-subsurface microbes have a very different relationship with energy than we previously thought, then it follows that they'll have to have a different relationship with time as well, because when you live on such tiny energy gradients,
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Nina Jablonski breaks...
what we see is a beautiful gradient from the darkest skin pigmentations toward the equator, and the lightest ones toward the poles. What's very, very important here is that the earliest humans evolved in high-UV environments,
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How economic inequality...
And it makes no difference to their life expectancy at all. There's no suggestion of a relationship there. But if we look within our societies, there are extraordinary social gradients in health running right across society.
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Rodent Roommates PIPE...
and I can catch a mouse if they are out here. This is the urban part of my gradient, here in the St. Louis metro area. Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents,
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Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...
or in quite recent exile. Another consequence of this recent origin of modern humans is that genetic variants are generally distributed widely in the world, in many places, and they tend to vary as gradients,
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How do Catfish See the...
mix of tastes and concentrations flavours and gradients it's a world we can hardly imagine
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
That's what happens along a concentration gradient, as substances shift passively from a high, or squashed, concentration, to a lower, more comfortable one. How does this relate to ocean currents and thermohaline circulation? Thermo means temperature, and haline means salt because in the real world scenario of the sea,
Video examples
Michael Levin: The...
amazingly, there is an electrical gradient, head to tail, that's generated that tells the piece where the heads and the tails go and in fact, how many heads or tails you're supposed to have. So what we learned to do is to manipulate this electrical gradient, and the important thing is that we don't apply electricity.
Video examples
How I found a mythical...
to better constrain the problem and better understand the system, but from what the data is telling us now, it looks to be the result of a large hydrothermal system. Basically, it works like So, the deeper you go into the earth, the hotter it gets. We refer to this as the geothermal gradient.
Video examples
The mysterious origins...
The first life form wouldn’t have had other organisms to consume, of course, so it must have been an autotroph, generating energy either from the sun or from chemical gradients. So what locations meet these criteria? Places on land or close to the surface of the ocean
Video examples
This deep-sea mystery is...
it's enough. So if these deep-subsurface microbes have a very different relationship with energy than we previously thought, then it follows that they'll have to have a different relationship with time as well, because when you live on such tiny energy gradients,
Video examples
Nina Jablonski breaks...
what we see is a beautiful gradient from the darkest skin pigmentations toward the equator, and the lightest ones toward the poles. What's very, very important here is that the earliest humans evolved in high-UV environments,
Video examples
How economic inequality...
And it makes no difference to their life expectancy at all. There's no suggestion of a relationship there. But if we look within our societies, there are extraordinary social gradients in health running right across society.
Video examples
Rodent Roommates PIPE...
and I can catch a mouse if they are out here. This is the urban part of my gradient, here in the St. Louis metro area. Here surrounded by buildings, there are still a lot of places for wildlife, like nuisance rodents,
Video examples
Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...
or in quite recent exile. Another consequence of this recent origin of modern humans is that genetic variants are generally distributed widely in the world, in many places, and they tend to vary as gradients,
Video examples
How do Catfish See the...
mix of tastes and concentrations flavours and gradients it's a world we can hardly imagine
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.
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Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon night in winter, you might even glimpse a moonbow - a rainbow generated from the moonlight. This is the river Aghanashini - 'the cleanser of sins.
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Uday Kotak
Indian Businessman
A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully explained by factors such as health-care access.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
Brexit is a cliff, not a gradient. The mistake we are in danger of making is to believe that some Brexits are better than others when the fundamental problem is Brexit itself.
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Luc Montagnier
French Scientist
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
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Martin Rees
British Scientist
There are strong reasons for believing that space goes on beyond the limits of our observational horizon. There are strong reasons because if you look in opposite directions, conditions are the same to within one part in 100,000. So if we are part of some finite structure then, if the gradient is so shallow, it is likely to go on much further.
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Rohini Nilekani
Indian Writer
Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon night in winter, you might even glimpse a moonbow - a rainbow generated from the moonlight. This is the river Aghanashini - 'the cleanser of sins.
Quote examples
Uday Kotak
Indian Businessman
A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully explained by factors such as health-care access.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
Brexit is a cliff, not a gradient. The mistake we are in danger of making is to believe that some Brexits are better than others when the fundamental problem is Brexit itself.
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Luc Montagnier
French Scientist
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
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