declivity
IPA: dɪkɫˈɪvʌti
noun
- (geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve.
- A downward bend in a path.
- (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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Examples of "declivity" in Sentences
- He experienced a declivity.
- He went down on a declivity.
- The car went into a declivity.
- The men had to follow the declivity.
- Propodeal declivity almost straight in profile.
- The growth halted and went through a declivity.
- The interstice has similar tubercle on posterior declivity.
- But what of that kind of pit which we associate with a declivity
- At the ancient sanctuary, there was built against a rock declivity.
- At the bottom of the declivity was a pond of water bubbling and steaming.
- A catch or block called a trigger may be used to hold a wheel on a declivity.
- Three sides were thus defended, the steep declivity at the rear precluding attack from that direction.
- The declivity is the greatest of the whole river with the exception of the First Granite Gorge of the Grand
- A few hundred yards from the trail was a steep and narrow declivity like something out of a Tony Hillerman story.
- Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
- On a shelf or cup of the declivity was a little clump of vegetation, and in the midst of it welled up a thin stream of water.
- "First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle.
- But again, after the car rested a minute, the light, dry earth began to crack and crumble away from under the tires, rolling in a miniature avalanche down the steep declivity into the water.
- "The whole is a sweet Spot of Earth, not a Span hardly uncultivated with Sugar-Canes; all sides bend with an easy declivity to the Sea, and is ever green," was how one visitor described the island in the 1730s.
- Sufetula was built one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Carthage: a gentle declivity is watered by a running stream, and shaded by a grove of juniper-trees; and, in the ruins of a triumpha arch, a portico, and three temples of the Corinthian order, curiosity may yet admire the magnificence of the Romans.