steply
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
steply (comparative more steply, superlative most steply)
- Misspelling of steeply.
- 1914, Geological Survey of Canada, Summary report - Geological Survey Department:
- It was also supposed by Clapp that the steply-dipping sandstones and shales exposed along the Chemainus river and forming the base of Mount Prevost were unconformably overlain by the gently dipping conglomerates […]
- 1915, Current history and Forum:
- Away to the southwest, beyond the patches of firwood and the gray, steply rolling land, there toned the far diapason of artillery; strings of army transport, Red Cross vehicles, and miscellaneous men straggled upon the road.
- 1949, Edmund Maute Spieker, The transition between the Colorado Plateaus and the Great Basin:
- Crossbedding in the gray sandstones shows that it is now right side up, and in Flagstaff time it was therefore on the east flank of a steply folded anticline.
- Step by step; gradually; in steps; stepwise.
- 1969, Geological Survey (U.S.), U.S. Geological Survey professional paper:
- Some of the most significant Paleozoic inliers occur near Las Delicias in southwestern Coahuila, 480 km (300 miles) south of the Marathon region, where a thick sequence of marine Permian with volcanic components has been steply folded […]
- 1992, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. Congress, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS proceedings, 1992:
- For an instance, the disadventages about the die CAD system are as the following: * CAD technique can only participate in the design process partially and steply.
Adjective[edit]
steply (comparative more steply, superlative most steply)
- Stepwise; gradual.
- 1968, International Measurement Congress, International Measurements Conference, Acta IMEKO:
- The electron-hole pairs produced on this way cause a steply rise of the reverse current (i.e. field emission).