Steepness Definition

Steepness Sentence Examples

• Its great length (460 ft.) and the height and steepness of its vaulted cedar-wood roof (1538) are very impressive.

• The distinguishing feature of the first is the steepness of its outlines; this indicates that the induction increases rapidly in relation to the magnetic force, and hence the metal is well suited for the construction of dynamo magnets.

• Owing to the great elevation and steepness of the mountains, dreadful storms arise among the hollows, often attended with fatal results.

• The continental shelf is the gentle slope which extends from the edge of the land to a depth usually about loo, though in some cases as much as 300 fathoms, and is there demarcated by an abrupt increase in the steepness of the slope to ocean depths.

• The greater steepness of its sides makes Meru in some aspects a more striking object than its taller neighbour.