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natural slope

noun

  1. civil engineering the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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