Declivity meaning

dĭ-klĭv'ĭ-tē
A downward slope, as of a hill.
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A downward slope or sloping, as of a hill.
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(geomorphology) The downward slope of a hill.
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A downward bend in a path.
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Origin of declivity

  • Latin dēclīvitās from dēclīvis sloping down dē- de- clīvus slope klei- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 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).
    From Wiktionary

Declivity Sentence Examples

  • Our columns ought to have begun to appear on an open declivity to his right.

  • above the sea on the southern declivity of the Untersberg, 6 m.

  • A better idea of this region is conveyed by the native name Altos, or highlands, although that term includes the northern declivity of the Sierra Madre.

  • The old town is picturesquely situated on a lofty declivity, which includes the most easterly point of land in England.

  • Below the north-east declivity of this range lies Georgia, on the other side of which province rises the Caucasus, the boundary of Asia and Europe between the Caspian and Black Seas, the highest points of which reach an elevation of nearly 19,000 ft.

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