incline

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Self-leveling compensates for car posture due to its load, not due to road incline.

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Quick take

an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of incline gathered in one view.

noun

an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"

noun

an inclined surface connecting two levels

verb

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for incline.

noun

an elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain"

noun

an inclined surface connecting two levels

verb

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"

verb

bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man"

verb

lower or bend (the head or upper body), as in a nod or bow; "She inclined her head to the student"

verb

be at an angle; "The terrain sloped down"

verb

feel favorably disposed or willing; "She inclines to the view that people should be allowed to expres their religious beliefs"

verb

make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them"

Example sentences

Self-leveling compensates for car posture due to its load, not due to road incline.

As I tentatively approached the cup, I realized that the desk it was sitting on was at a slight incline.

It has a relatively steep incline and the road curves as you enter and exit the underpass.

"As a high school physics teacher, I had students look at me like I was a genius because I could do inclined plane problems in my head.

I personally incline toward - memory safety in C is hard.

But in reality, do 50,000 incline plane problems, and you'll probably be cranking them out too!Tell them "This CAN BE easy with some work" and you're doing your students a service.

I know this only because Tesla recently released a software update that added "hill assist" which will hold the brake in place for 1 second when at a certain incline to avoid rolling back.

The diplomat types were very upset with him for pointing out that their books and classes were terrible, teaching things like the energy of a ball going down an incline without taking rotational kinetic energy into account.

So the inverse of your experiment of a ball rolling down an incline is a ball starting at the bottom of the incline with a certain velocity pointing upwards, that'll roll upwards until it comes to a stop, just as it would do in normal time.

" \nbribery is "the receiving or offering any undue reward by or to any person whomsoever, whose ordinary profession or business relates to the administration of public justice, in order to influence his behaviour in office and to incline him to act contrary to his duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.

The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.