embankment slope

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• slope — slopingly, adv. slopingness, n. /slohp/, v., sloped, sloping, n. v.i. 1. to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant. 2. to move at an inclination or obliquely: They …   Universalium

• Embankment (transportation) — To keep a road or rail line straight and/or flat, and where the comparative cost or practicality of alternate solutions (such as diversion) is too prohibitive, the land over which the road or rail line will travel is built up to form an… …   Wikipedia

• slope — 1. noun a) An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward. I had to climb a small slope to get to the site. b) The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward. The road has a very sharp downward slope at that point. Syn: bank,… …   Wiktionary

• embankment — noun (C) 1 a wide wall of stones or earth built to keep the water in a river from flowing over its banks, or to support a road or railway over low ground 2 a slope of earth, stone etc that rises from either side of a railway or road …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Vegetation and slope stability — are interrelated by the ability of the plant life growing on slopes to both promote and hinder the stability of the slope. The relationship is a complex combination of the type of soil, the rainfall regime, the plant species present, the slope… …   Wikipedia

• Grade (slope) — d = run Δh = rise l = slope length α = angle of inclination This article is for the grade of a topographic feature or constructed element, for other uses see: Slope (disambiguation) The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, pitch or rise)… …   Wikipedia

• Counter slope — Counter Coun ter, a. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle. I. Taylor.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• protective embankment — noun a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification • Syn: ↑escarpment, ↑escarp, ↑scarp • Hypernyms: ↑fortification, ↑munition …   Useful english dictionary

• bank — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. slope, hillside; mound, heap, ridge; tier; beach, shore, shoal; depository, vault. See obliquity, land, store. v. tilt, angle, slope; deposit. See edge, aviation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A wall of… …   English dictionary for students

• Allama Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi — Infobox Person name = Allama Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi caption = Allama I. I. Kazi birth date = birth date|1886|04|18| birth place = Village Paat District Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan death date = death date|1968|04|13|mf=y death place = Near… …   Wikipedia

• ОТКОС ЗЕМЛЯНОГО ПОЛОТНА — боковая наклонная поверхность земляного полотна (Болгарский язык; Български) откос на земното платно (Чешский язык; Čeština) svah zemního tělesa (Немецкий язык; Deutsch) Dammböschung (Венгерский язык; Magyar) alépítmény rézsű (Монгольский язык)… …   Строительный словарь