slope

The slope, or grade, of a roadway, is obviously essential.

Pipes without enough slope require frequent and costly maintenance from work crews to keep the lines clear.

The hydraulic grade line slopes downward along pipes as the fluid loses energy to friction.

Let's leave the slope behind us, and enter what's known as the Twilight Zone, the portal to the deep sea.

The angle of this slope is called the angle of repose which is the steepest angle at which a soil can naturally rest.

There’s another type of cross slope that helps make roads safer.

Some worry it's the start of a slippery slope, that kids will use AI to cheat.

Until we reach the final slope, a trench inside the larger Mariana Trench with gently-sloping sides that enframe a valley about 1.6 kilometers wide.

If they start slow, with a not-so-steep slope, they end okay-ish.

The reason they have the big slope tarp in front is so that someone can't stand directly underneath the rim where the height difference would be much more apparent.

In other words, this is the slope at which the shear stresses within the soil due to its own weight are exactly equal to the shear strength caused by internal friction.

The question of how pandemics end, depends on how they start; if they start fast with a steep slope, they end badly.

If you encounter a situation like this in real life, you might see small springs, wet areas of the ground, and even icicles along slopes where the groundwater is becoming surface water before your eyes.

Just about any civil engineering project starts with a survey to determine the legal boundaries between parcels of property, the location of existing infrastructure, and the topography and slopes of the land.