slope off

slope | American Dictionary

slope
noun[ C ]
us/sloʊp/

slopenoun[C] (SURFACE)

a surface that rises at an angle, esp. a hill or mountain, or the angle at which something rises:
Students learn to ski on gentle slopes in a straight line.
Snow had settled on some of the higher slopes.

slopenoun[C] (MEASURE)

geometry
a measure of how steep an angle a line has
slope
verb[ I ]
us/sloʊp/

slopeverb[I] (GO DOWN OR UP)

to go downward or upward at an angle:
The path slopes down to the house.

Examples of slope

slope
Estimated slope coefficients and standard errors which are not reported here can be obtained from the author.
Second, it limits the researcher to investigating only differences in level across the two cohorts, not differences in shape or slope.
Figure 4 illustrates the four different patterns resulting from group differences in slope and intercept.
In addition, early depressive symptoms had a significant negative quadratic effect that indicated that the slope was less steep at higher depressive symptom levels.
The slope of the regression line passing through these columns reflects the optimal leastsquares trajectory based on an average of their scores on each variable.
Equations (2.1) and (2.2) are solved using a slope limiter algorithm (see, for example, [4]).
Determining the slope of the sequestration isocline requires an additional assumption.
Survival across months showed an overall negative slope for the survival of each species with time of exposure in the field (figs 3 and 4).
Clinoform geometries (shape, slope, height and lateral extent) and clinofacies (sedimentary structure, original fabric and components) can be considered as unaltered.
Note the pervasive matrix recrystallization (microspar), and the general increase in grain size towards the upper slope.
However, the blocks were found in close association with one another on a small patch of slope.
Conversely, the outer ramp and upper slope of the clinoform is marked by abundant autochthonous red algae and large benthic foraminifers.
88 the petrographic composition of the lithic wackes were ascribed to deposition in an oceanic trench or an immature slope basin.
In prolongation of axis, but without connecting to it, there is a tiny axial ridge inconspicuously marked on anterior slope of medial posterior border.
The apparent correlation between slope and travelled distance may be used to predict potential flow lengthening.
See all examples of slope
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withslope

slope

These are words often used in combination with slope.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.

continental slope
Moreover, the deposition of several tens of metres of sediments at the continentalslope may have taken a great deal of time.
downhill slope
Tax schemes, dodgy companies and money laundering merge into one another on a downhillslope into illegality.
From the
Hansard archive