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natural slope

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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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This assumes your lot has enough natural slope to your property lines.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2023

This one was designed to match the natural slope of the bedroom wall.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2022

“Depending on storm activity and other factors, we’d anticipate it to resemble its more natural slope within three to six months.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018

“Generally, after a renourishment is done the slope just offshore begins to mimic the natural slope relatively quickly,” Gardner said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2018

Bottle-green when seen under certain angles, and dull dead sable at others, it was variegated by cliffs and slopes polished like dark mirrors, and by sooty sand-shunts disposed at the natural slope.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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