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Webster 1913 Edition
Declivity
De-cliv′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Declivities
(#)
. [L.
declivitas
, fr. declivis
sloping, downhill; de
+ clivus
a slope, a hill; akin to clinare
to incline: cf. F. déclivité
. See Decline
.] 1.
Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; – opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.
2.
A descending surface; a sloping place.
Commodious
declivities
and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.
Webster 1828 Edition
Declivity
DECLIV'ITY
,Noun.
DECLI'VOUS,
DECLIV'ITOUS, a. Gradually descending; not precipitous; sloping.
DECOCT', v.t. [L. to boil.]
Definition 2024
declivity
declivity
English
Noun
declivity (plural declivities)
- (geomorphology) the downward slope of a hill
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
- A rocky cliff appeared, mounds of turned–up earth by the shore, houses on a hill, others with iron roofs, amongst a waste of excavations, or hanging to the declivity.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
- a downward bend in a path
Related terms
Translations
downward slope
downward bend in a path