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UK
/ɡɹˈeɪdiənt/
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[ US /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/ ]
NOUN
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the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal
a five-degree gradient - a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension
How To Use gradient In A Sentence
- These authors, by using differential and density-gradient centrifugation techniques, achieved the differentiation of the microbody fraction from lysosomes, microsomes, and mitochondria.
- Air parcels at higher heights over the equator are accelerated down the gradient toward the pole by the force of gravity.
- The direct impact of a long-term imbalanced sex ratio at birth is the emergence of "gradient marriage squeeze," it said. The Times of India
- Long sympathetic neurons and sensory neurons, with particular reference to those of the dorsomedial quadrant of spinal ganglia in chick embryo [12], provided a most valuable system for demonstrating the three main activities of NGF, i.e., 1) its vital trophic role during the early developmental stages, 2) its property of enhancing differentiative processes such as neurite outgrowth, and 3) of guiding the growing or regenerating neurites along its own concentration gradient. [ Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- This paper presented a new adaptive variable step size LMS algorithm, which controls step size according to the correlation of the gradient change of filter coefficients.
- However, our findings indicate that evenness is relatively uniform for all vegetative layers along the elevation gradient.
- Gradient elution chromatography was applied to determine the ginsenoside contents in Shengmai injections.
- The temperature gradient just above the core would become much steeper, for example, causing a much hotter boundary layer.
- Furthermore, in both animals and plants, gradients of growth factors are established, in plants by basipetal auxin transport, inducing and controlling vascular differentiation.
- It turns out that the gradient in oxygen, declining to zero in the sulfurous sediments beneath the surface, is an electric gradient as well, and that the worms use this to advantage in producing metabolic fuel.