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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

向下倾斜

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: xiàng xià qīng xié

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Declivity/dɪˈklɪv.ə.ti/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这条小路顺着山坡向下倾斜。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A downward slope or incline, especially of ground.

    "The cottage was nestled at the foot of a steep grassy declivity."
  2. 2

    The degree or angle of a downward slope.

    "Engineers carefully measured the declivity of the terrain before laying the railway tracks."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin noun 'declivitas', formed from 'declivis' meaning 'sloping downward' (from 'de-' meaning 'down' and 'clivus' meaning 'hill' or 'slope'). It entered the English language in the early 17th century to describe a downward slope or the descending side of a hill.

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