Gradient: alternatives and connections

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or gradation; slowness.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them…

Direction and rate of greatest increase.