OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28967

declivity

/dɪˈklɪvɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bajada • declive • declividad
The downward slope of a curve.
1780, Theodore Augustine Mann, A Treatise on Rivers and Canals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 69: For the Year 1779, Part II, 582, The velocity…
[…]whoever takes the trouble of observing how the water runs longitudinally in the ruts on a convex road, although the declivity down the sides be incomparably greater than in the…
bajada
A downward bend in a path.
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