Gap vs Gradient - What's the difference?
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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
A vacant space or time.
A hiatus.
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(label) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(label) The regions between the outfielders.
The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
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, title= (label) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
(label) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(label) To make an opening in; to breach.
(label) To check the size of a gap.
A slope or incline.
A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
(calculus) Of a function y'' = ''f''(''x'') or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of ''y'' with respect to ''x''
that is, the amount by which ''y'' changes for a certain (often unit) change in ''x
equivalently, the inclination to the X axis of the tangent to the curve of the graph.
(science) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
(analysis) A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field ?: ∇φ
Moving by steps; walking.
Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
As nouns the difference between gap and gradient
is that gap is gap while gradient is gradient.gap
English
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
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- Under bulk billing the patient does not pay a gap , and the medical practitioner receives 85% of the scheduled fee.
Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win, passage=That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2secs before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.}}
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska, page=70 , passage=When Charles Bessey suddenly died in 1916 at age seventy, he left a gap that was impossible to fill; and though his protégé. R. J. Pool, was a man of intelligence and character, he did not have Bessey’s authority.}}
Synonyms
* (opening made by breaking or parting) break, hole, rip, split, tear, rift, chasm, fissure * (opening allowing passage or entrance) break, clearing, hole, opening * (opening that implies a breach or defect) space * (vacant space or time) window * (hiatus) hiatus * (mountain pass) col, neck, pass * (in baseball)Derived terms
* gap-toothed * gap yearVerb
(gapp)Anagrams
* * * ----gradient
English
Noun
(en noun) (slope) (wikipedia gradient)that is, the amount by which ''y'' changes for a certain (often unit) change in ''x
equivalently, the inclination to the X axis of the tangent to the curve of the graph.
Synonyms
* (slope) hill, incline, ramp, slope * (in calculus) slope (of a line )Derived terms
* gradient wind * ruling gradient * supergradient * temperature gradientAdjective
(-)- gradient automata
- (Wilkins)
- the gradient line of a railroad