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- DictionaryGra·di·ent/ˈɡrādēənt/
noun
- 1. an inclined part of a road or railway; a slope: "fail-safe brakes for use on steep gradients"
- 2. an increase or decrease in the magnitude of a property (e.g. temperature, pressure, or concentration) observed in passing from one point or moment to another.
The meaning of GRADIENT is the rate of regular or graded ascent or descent : inclination. How to use gradient in a sentence. Did you know?
Gradient. The gradient, represented by the blue arrows, denotes the direction of greatest change of a scalar function. The values of the function are represented in greyscale and increase in value from white (low) to dark (high).
The rate at which a physical quantity, such as temperature or pressure changes over a distance. A operator on scalar fields yielding a vector function, where the value of the vector evaluated at any point indicates the direction and degree of change of the field at that point.
a measure of a change that occurs between different quantities of something such as temperature or pressure over a particular distance: This study shows how organisms are organized across major environmental gradients. At an altitude of ten miles, there is a distinct temperature gradient. Fewer examples.
We know the definition of the gradient: a derivative for each variable of a function. The gradient symbol is usually an upside-down delta, and called “del” (this makes a bit of sense – delta indicates change in one variable, and the gradient is the change in for all variables).
us / ˈɡreɪd·i·ənt / Add to word list. earth science. a measure of how steep a slope is, often expressed as a percentage. (Definition of gradient from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gradient.
The gradient captures all the partial derivative information of a scalar-valued multivariable function. Created by Grant Sanderson.
