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TEMPERATURE GRADIENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("temperature gradient" is a kind of...):
gradient (a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension)