What is "dropoff"

Usage examples of "dropoff".

Standing at the cracked dropoff, a half-bowshot away, the monster clasped Knucklebones in its claws.

Not far off, poised at the dropoff where Knucklebones had disappeared, outlined by winter stars and night sky, Sunbright sat with his legs crossed, only dimly aware of the hubbub.

Luap crept cautiously to the dropoff and found himself staring down into a well of blue air, still shadowed by the cliff.

The delta wings started about onequarter of the way down the hull, slanting to a sharper angle as they grew, and finally ending in a straight dropoff at right angles to the ship.

There was a steep dropoff on the other side, this should slow them a little once she popped a charge to make the hulk immovable.

If everything went off without a hitch, Bentley would drive down to the dropoff point and wait for Marissa and Tristan to come down in the tram.

She could feel the rear wheels slipping, and she steered toward the center, halfway between the jagged boulders and the dropoff into Sage Creek.

I recognized the curving slope of the fairway and the steep dropoff to the ocean.

From earlier explorations, centuries ago, he recalled the craggy profiles, sheer dropoffs, abrupt canyons.

The theory is that because of a fall in solar radiation of about 6 percent and a dropoff in the production (or retention) of greenhouse gases, Earth essentially lost its ability to hold on to its heat.