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steepness

/steep/US // stip //UK // (stiːp) //

陡峭度,陡度,坡度,陡峭程度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    steep·er, steep·est.

    • : having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
    • : unduly high; exorbitant: Those prices are too steep for me.
    • : extreme or incredible, as a statement or story.
    • : high or lofty.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.

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Examples

  • The Wrangler Rubicon is generally accepted to be the most capable 4x4 currently available, that the Hummer EV is able to offer such significantly steeper angles is simply extraordinary.

  • The Total Chaos upper control arms facilitate additional drop travel using a high-angle uniball that can achieve a steeper angle to the spindle than stock items.

  • Nevertheless, that would be the steepest fall since Q2 of 2009 in the depths of the financial crisis.

  • This next sentence might seem like a non-sequitur, but it would make sense to anyone steeped in the alternative story.

  • Meanwhile, suburban moms steeped in online health propaganda are printing out Facebook memes and showing up maskless to stores, camera in hand and hell-bent on forcing low-paid retail workers to let them shop anyway.

  • To this evil the darkness and steepness of the streets mainly contribute, by furnishing almost a certainty of escape.

  • The steepness was such that to climb it unencumbered was a breathless business; the linen made her task a cruelty to her.

  • They were obliged to carry their skees, on account both of the steepness of the slope and the density of the underbrush.

  • It stands on the summit of a round hill, and from the steepness of its sides is capable of being made very strong.

  • Lower down, where the steepness is not so great, the elevations much exceed 178 the depressions.