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Gradient vs Graduated - What's the difference?

gradient | graduated |

As a noun gradient

is gradient.

As a verb graduated is

(graduate).

As an adjective graduated is

(obsolete) in steps.

gradient

English

Noun

(en noun) (slope) (wikipedia gradient)
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * (slope) hill, incline, ramp, slope * (in calculus) slope (of a line )

    Derived terms

    * gradient wind * ruling gradient * supergradient * temperature gradient

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Moving by steps; walking.
    • gradient automata
    (Wilkins)
  • Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.
    • the gradient line of a railroad
  • Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ----

    graduated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (graduate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In steps.
  • Having a university degree; having completed training.
  • Marked with graduations.
  • Arranged by grade, level, degree.
  • * 1888 , Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants , London: Whiting and Co., p 17:
    • The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.
  • (taxation) Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  • (ornithology) Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

    • Derived terms

    * graduated cylinder