Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for temperature gradient. Search instead for temperature required.

temperature gradient

American  

noun

Meteorology.

  1. rate of change of temperature with distance.

temperature gradient British  

noun

  1. the rate of change in temperature in a given direction, esp in altitude

"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
temperature gradient Scientific  

  1. The rate of change of temperature with displacement in a given direction from a given reference point.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

However, the thermal differences that occur perpendicular to the temperature gradient in the sample are extremely small: in typical millimetre-sized samples, they are in the range of microkelvins to millikelvins.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

Arctic warming has further sharpened the temperature gradient between these different zones.

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2023

“The greater the temperature gradient, the stronger the storm systems are,” Gensini said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2023

As the environmental temperature goes up, the temperature gradient between the environment and you goes down.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2022

In the middle diagram is shown the temperature gradient at times of frost, from the ground to a height of one hundred meters.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.