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downslope /ˈdaʊnsləʊp /adverbAt or towards a lower point on a slope.Gasping, Joshua stumbled into the driving snow, slogging through the drifts downslope toward the forest and the Dogs, his legs already numb with the chill....- As your balance and coordination improve, set goals like eyeballing a tree 100 yards downslope and making 20 turns on the way to it.
- He cranks his uphill repeat, turns, and pads downslope for his final two-minute gasper.
adjectiveCaused by, occurring, or acting on a downward slope: they can produce strong downslope winds...- The term Föhn is often used as a generic term for a warm downslope wind.
- The transport paths are usually symmetrical about the original impact, so that the pattern of movement on a hill slope is diffusive, although there is a net downslope movement.
- We consider the most likely mechanism for this coast-normal extension to be downslope gravity spreading and sliding of the anticlines of weak saturated sediments lifted into anticlines above subcreted thrust culminations.
nounA downward slope.The downslopes - the ends of careers - are usually never pretty for anybody....- The larger macropores may extend for long distances, as water erodes and enlarges the segments that run downslopes.
- On the downslope from the foreboding metal fence of the Camarones del Sur shrimp farm, known as Camarsa, a few fisherman stand half-submerged in the shallow waters.
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