What is "steepness"

Usage examples of "steepness".

Vakk had been bridged, so that access was gained to the end area of Market, where increasing steepness of the ground necessitated many steps, which culminated in a wide balcony housing a huge statue of Akha, carved from the rock.

Behind it, the ridge rose sharply in almost a cliff, but easing off in steepness towards the top where Vivero had placed the Chac temple.

The steepness of the cone suggested viscous lava flows, which on Earth would mean a predominance of andesitic rock.

The steepness of the glacier, not to mention sudden unaccountable dips to left and right across its width, must have made the heavy sled a dangerous liability, for, from its tracks, we had several times seen where it had slewed wildly at an angle, pivoting round on its iron tow-bar as, brakeless, it had sought to overrun the tractor.

Owing to the steepness of the cliff, the cart could not reach the quay and so all the chests and baskets had to be carried half-way up the hill to the waiting wagon.

Its angle of repose gave a steepness that made the surface doubly treacherous.

And even many years spent inside impact craters did not prepare one, he found-for the depth of the chambers, the steepness of the walls, the flatness of the floor.

West of Venafro the mountain steepness blocked road building, except for one narrow macadam road running southwest through the village of Ceppagna and the town of San Pietro Infme, where it joined the main highway leading north to Cassino.

Clearly, its builders had known precisely where they wanted to go, and they had cut sunken rights of way through the very hearts of hills rather than curl around them or accept slopes whose steepness would have exhausted draft animals.

He followed their steepnesses to the Mese, the avenue that, branching, ran from end to end of the city.

In between the rests he fought his way, step by careful step, in the frightful steepness of the bluffside, the underfooting made soft and treacherous by the downpour.