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The correct spelling is gradient.
How to pronounce gradient
noun
Say it like: Gra-dee-nt
The correct spelling is gradient. A slope or incline. For example: "gradient automata"
Usage Examples
“gradient automata”
“the gradient line of a railroad”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A slope or incline.
- 2.A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
- 3.Of a function y = f(x) or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of y with respect to x that is, the amount by which y changes for a certain (often unit) change in x equivalently, the inclination to the X axis of the tangent to the curve of the graph.
- 4.The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
- 5.A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: ∇φ
adjective
- 1.Moving by steps; walking.
- 2.Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
- 3.Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
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