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Ombre vs Gradient - What's the difference?

ombre | gradient |

As nouns the difference between ombre and gradient

is that ombre is a card game, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons; it involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10 while gradient is a slope or incline.

As an adjective gradient is

moving by steps; walking.

ombre

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) hombre, from (etyl) hombre, literally, a man, from (etyl) (lena) homo. See human.

Noun

(-)
  • A card game, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons; it involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • * Young
  • When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish -- called also umbra, and umbrine.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    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

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