"declivity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɪˈklɪvɪti/ [UK] Forms: declivities [plural]
Etymology: 1610s, from French déclivité, from Latin declivitatem, dēclīvitās, from dēclivis (“a sloping downward”), from de (“down”) + clīvus (“a slope”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) (English lean). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱley-|id=incline}}, {{der|en|fr|déclivité}} French déclivité, {{der|en|la|declivitatem}} Latin declivitatem, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ḱleywo-}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywo-, {{der|en|ine-pro|*ḱley-||to lean}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} declivity (plural declivities)
  1. (geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve. Categories (topical): Geomorphology Translations (downward slope): наклон надолу (naklon nadolu) [masculine] (Bulgarian), deklivo (Esperanto), alamäki (Finnish), lasku (Finnish), déclivité [feminine] (French), baixada [feminine] (Galician), κατωφέρεια (katoféreia) [feminine] (Greek), declivio [masculine] (Italian), mũikũrũko [class-3] (Kikuyu), înclinație mare (Romanian), caracter abrupt [neuter] (Romanian), склон (sklon) [masculine] (Russian), отко́с (otkós) [masculine] (Russian), bajada [feminine] (Spanish), ཐུར་གསེག (thur gseg) (Tibetan), còsta [feminine] (Venetan)
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  2. A downward bend in a path. Translations (downward bend in a path): alamäki (Finnish), lasku (Finnish), baixada [feminine] (Galician), κατηφόρα (katifóra) [feminine] (Greek), declivio [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-declivity-en-noun-9GFn-svm Disambiguation of 'downward bend in a path': 5 94 1
  3. (entomology) An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward. Categories (topical): Entomology
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: declivital, acclivity, decline

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Tibetan translations",
    "Terms with Venetan translations"
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱley-",
        "id": "incline"
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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "déclivité"
      },
      "expansion": "French déclivité",
      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "declivitatem"
      },
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      "name": "der"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "to lean"
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      "name": "der"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "1610s, from French déclivité, from Latin declivitatem, dēclīvitās,\nfrom dēclivis (“a sloping downward”), from de (“down”) + clīvus (“a slope”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) (English lean).",
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    {
      "form": "declivities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "declivity (plural declivities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "declivital"
    },
    {
      "word": "acclivity"
    },
    {
      "word": "decline"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Geomorphology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 6:",
          "text": "The Declivity was ſo ſmall, that I walked near a mile before I got to the Shore, which I conjectur'd was about eight a-clock in the Evening.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1780, Theodore Augustine Mann, A Treatise on Rivers and Canals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 69: For the Year 1779, Part II, 582,\nThe velocity of flowing waters is very far from being in proportion to the quantity of declivity in their bed: […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Alexander Cumming, Observations on the Very Important and Contrary Effects which Carriage Wheels, with Rims of Cylindrical, and of Conical Shape, Have on the Roads, page 30:",
          "text": "[…]whoever takes the trouble of observing how the water runs longitudinally in the ruts on a convex road, although the declivity down the sides be incomparably greater than in the direction which it is compelled to take in the ruts, will soon see the propriety of constructing roads so as to have the water rim length-ways upon them, instead of attempting to gain a declivity, by making it run from the middle to the sides.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1812, John Ainslie, Comprehensive Treatise on Land Surveying, page 117:",
          "text": "[…]a line was measured down the hill on the right of 420, and the angle of declivity is 23°, which shortens the line 33 links;[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "1908 [Charles Griffin & Company], John Harvard Biles, The Design and Construction of Ships, Volume I: Calculations and Strength, 2009, Europāischer Hochschulverlag (Salzwasser-Verlag), page 216,\nThe declivity of the keel blocks varies slightly with the size of the vessel. The larger the vessel, the less the declivity."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948 May and June, “The South Hetton Railway in 1835”, in Railway Magazine, page 184, image caption:",
          "text": "Companion woodcut of \"inclined plane on the railway from South Hetton to Seaham Harbour, showing the manner in which a loaded train of waggons pulls an empty one up the declivity\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The downward slope of a curve."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geomorphology",
          "geomorphology"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "slope",
          "slope"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "geomorphology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A downward bend in a path."
      ],
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          "bend",
          "bend"
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        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1979, Entomology Circular, Issue 200, Part 366, Division of Plant Industry, page number not shown,\nMales of all species have more developed armature of the elytral declivity than females (Figs. S, 6, 8, 9, 11-14)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Barry Bolton, “The Ant Tribe Dacetini”, in American Entomological Institute, volume 65, number 2, page 500:",
          "text": "Propodeum in profile with upper lobe of declivity elongate and narrow, subspiniform, almost as long as lower lobe.",
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        }
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        "(entomology) An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward."
      ],
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        "biology",
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        "natural-sciences"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈklɪvɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "naklon nadolu",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "наклон надолу"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "word": "deklivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "word": "alamäki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "word": "lasku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "déclivité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "baixada"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katoféreia",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κατωφέρεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "declivio"
    },
    {
      "code": "ki",
      "lang": "Kikuyu",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "class-3"
      ],
      "word": "mũikũrũko"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "word": "înclinație mare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "caracter abrupt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sklon",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "склон"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otkós",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "отко́с"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bajada"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "thur gseg",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "word": "ཐུར་གསེག"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "sense": "downward slope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "còsta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "downward bend in a path",
      "word": "alamäki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "downward bend in a path",
      "word": "lasku"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "downward bend in a path",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "baixada"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katifóra",
      "sense": "downward bend in a path",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "κατηφόρα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "downward bend in a path",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "declivio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "declivity"
}

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