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- Dictionaryslope/sləʊp/
noun
- 1. a surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface: "he slithered helplessly down the slope"
- 2. a person from East Asia, especially Vietnam. offensive US
verb
- 1. (of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down: "the garden sloped down to a stream"
- 2. move in an idle or aimless manner: informal British "I had seen Don sloping about the beach"
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a surface that lies at an angle to the horizontal so that some points on it are higher than others: The roof is at a slope (= at an angle to a horizontal surface) of 30°. B2. ( part of) the side of a hill or mountain: a ski / mountain slope. Snow had settled on some of the higher slopes.
The slope of a line in the plane containing the x and y axes is generally represented by the letter m, and is defined as the change in the y coordinate divided by the corresponding change in the x coordinate, between two distinct points on the line.
The meaning of SLOPE is that slants : sloping —often used in combination. How to use slope in a sentence.
What does slope mean? In mathematics, the slope (also called the gradient) of a line is a measurement of how steep the line is or how much of a slant it has. In math, a line is an object with no thickness that extends forever in both directions.
The slope of a line, also known as the gradient is defined as the value of the steepness or the direction of a line in a coordinate plane. Slope can be calculated using different methods, given the equation of a line or the coordinates of points lying on the straight line.
Illustrated definition of Slope: How steep a line is. In this example the slope is 35 0.6 Also called gradient. Have a play (drag...
To slope is to incline vertically in an oblique direction: The ground slopes (upward or downward) sharply here. To slant is to fall to one side, to lie obliquely to some line whether horizontal or perpendicular: The road slants off to the right.
