slope
A surface that either inclines or declines in a regular manner from the perspective of an observer.
Other meanings
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
“I had to climb a small slope to get to the site.”
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
“The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point.”
Related words
- backslope
- counterslope
- downslope
- foreslope
- interslope
- mountainslope
- palaeoslope
- paleoslope
- postslope
- roadslope
- slopehead
- slopelike
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “slope” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.