natural slope

noun

1. civil engineering the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping

Example Sentences

There is no escarp, the natural slope of the rampart being carried down to the bottom of the ditch.

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"We'll go down the natural slope of the mountain and then work back around the bottom to our lake," said Mr. Waterman.

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From the natural slope to seaward of these plains, they are very easily irrigated, and in consequence singularly fertile.

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In the middle pocket the earth was allowed to take its natural slope back on the floor.

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From the natural slope to seaward of these plains they are very easily irrigated, and in consequence singularly fertile.

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