Definition of Steepening

1. Verb. (present participle of steepen) ¹

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Definition of Steepening

1. steepen [v] - See also: steepen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steepening

steenbok
steenboks
steenbuck
steenbucks
steened
steening
steenings
steens
steep
steep-slope roof
steep-slope roofs
steep-slope rooves
steeped
steepen
steepened
steepening (current term)
steepens
steeper
steepers
steepest
steepeup
steepie
steepier
steepiest
steepiness
steeping
steepish
steeple
steeplebush
steeplebushes

Literary usage of Steepening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"If the observer can secure a position where the wave profile is discernible, he will find that there is a steepening of the wave front, to be sure, ..."

2. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"If the observer can secure a position where the wave profile is discernible, he will find that there is a steepening of the wave front, to be sure, ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"They are, (1) steepening the thermal gradient which exists at the time of cooling through the transformation range; (2) increasing the internal pressure; ..."

4. The Witwatersrand Goldfields, Banket & Mining Practice: With an Appendix on by Samuel John Truscott (1907)
"5080 „ Secondary steepening, as met with up to the present, has the nature of gentle undulation ; as it is accompanied by a compensating flattening on ..."

5. Upper Peninsula 1869-1873: Accompanied by an Atlas of Maps by Michigan Geological Survey (1873)
"It is partly in virtue of this steepening in the dip that the Calumet curves toward the Albany and Boston as we have seen. But if this curvature is small, ..."

6. Transactions by American Institute of Mining Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME. (1914)
"They are, (1) steepening the thermal gradient which exists at the time <>f cooling through the transformation range; (2) increasing the internal pressure; ..."

7. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"The required conditions are then (1) that the steepening of the cirque wall from x to y should be effected by sapping originated at y through the agencies ..."

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