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slope
English
Etymology
From aslope (adjective, adverb).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /slo?p/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sl??p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
slope (countable and uncountable, plural slopes)
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- (vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
Synonyms
- (area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward): bank, embankment, gradient, hill, incline
- (degree to which a surface tends upward or downward): gradient
- (mathematics): first derivative, gradient
- (offensive: Chinese person): Chinaman, Chink
Translations
Verb
slope (third-person singular simple present slopes, present participle sloping, simple past and past participle sloped)
- (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
- (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
- (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
- (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
Derived terms
- ski slope
- slippery slope
- Slope County
- sloping
Translations
Adjective
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) Sloping.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
- A bank not steep, but gently slope.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens
Adverb
slope (comparative more slope, superlative most slope)
- (obsolete) slopingly
Anagrams
- LEPOs, Poles, S-pole, eslop, lopes, olpes, poles, spole
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
slope
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of sluipen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of slopen
Anagrams
- sloep, spoel
slope From the web:
- what slope is parallel to m=4
- what slope is perpendicular to 5/8
- what slope is parallel to m=3/4
- what slope is perpendicular to m=3
- what slope is undefined
- what slope is a horizontal line
- what slope is a vertical line
- what slope intercept form
hachure
English
Etymology
From French hachure (“crosshatching”), from hacher (“to hatch”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hæ??j??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hæ????/
Noun
hachure (plural hachures)
- (cartography, chiefly historical) A line on a map indicating the steepness of a slope.
Usage notes
- Unlike contour lines, hachures are drawn in the direction of the slope and their thickness and closeness is used to represent the relief with shading. They are no longer used on most modern maps.
Translations
Verb
hachure (third-person singular simple present hachures, present participle hachuring, simple past and past participle hachured)
- To mark a map with hachures.
French
Etymology
hacher +? -ure
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /a.?y?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
hachure f (plural hachures)
- A crosshatching line.
- (cartography) A mapping hachure or the technique itself.
- (rare) Something minced.
Derived terms
- hachurer
Further reading
- “hachure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
hachure From the web:
- hachure meaning
- what do hachure lines indicate
- what are hachure lines
- what do hachure lines represent
- what is hachures in geography
- what do hachure marks indicate
- what do hachures indicate about the topography
- what do hachure lines show
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