steepening's Usage Examples:

The base of the volcano is around 10 km (6 mi) wide, steepening from about 15 degrees at 300 m (980 ft) altitude to around 30 degrees.

Shock waves can form due to steepening of ordinary waves.

The climb starts with a gentle slope before gradually steepening to a maximum gradient of 13 % towards the top.

soil slopes or as a construction technique that allows the safe over-steepening of new or existing soil slopes.

sufficient vision can no longer be achieved by contact lenses due to steepening of the cornea, scarring or lens intolerance, corneal cross-linking is.

Ocular: retinal vascular thrombosis, steepening of corneal curvature or intolerance to contact lenses.

It is widely held[by whom?] that a common cause for headwall steepening and extension headward is the crevasses known as bergschrund that occur.

emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

To take advantage of this curve steepening, he buys a constant maturity swap paying the six-month LIBOR rate and.

steepening of the ridge but is itself "little more than a step" 50m beyond the Great Chimney (p105).

The Great Tower, a much more imposing steepening.

At 17:41, people on the ground saw Flight 605 enter a steepening dive and crash 2 miles (3 km) east of Bainbridge.

Below the summit, Ubinas has the shape of an upwards-steepening cone with a prominent notch on the southern side.

Frontogenesis is the process of creating or steepening the temperature gradient of a front.

shoshonitic with the last one million years, possibly due to the progressive steepening of the Benioff zone, which is inclined at 50-60°.

beneath the inlet, the basin lacks strong internal thresholds (abruptly steepening slopes) that often isolates the deep of fjord basins from imported tidal.

– while the instrument displayed level flight, the aircraft entered a steepening bank to the left.

This ultimately leads to the steepening of the slope and the collapse of higher slope elements as well as the.

mountain, smoothing its slopes on the west when the ice was covering it and steepening the east slopes through erosion when the meltwater burst through Deep.

the forward slip will allow the aircraft track to be maintained while steepening the descent without adding excessive airspeed.

From here the path bypasses the Narnain Boulders, steepening at around 600 metres (2,000 ft).

Synonyms:

change;

Antonyms:

detransitivize; stay;