Both Uses of
gradient
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- O, get, rev on a gradient one in nine.†
Chpt 14 *
- …at an initial plant cost of 5 pounds per linear yard by way of the Dargle, Rathdown, Glen of the Downs and Callowhill to the 26 acre reservoir at Stillorgan, a distance of 22 statute miles, and thence, through a system of relieving tanks, by a gradient of 250 feet to the city boundary at Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough…†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(gradient) the slope of a hill; or (more rarely) any value relative to another
or:
a change (measured in specific units) of some physical quantity or its rate of change