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Definition: Acclivity |
AcclivityNoun1. An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make the grade". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "acclivity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Acclivity \Ac*cliv"i*ty\, noun; plural Acclivities. [Latin expression acclivitas, from acclivis, acclivus, ascending; ad clivus hill, slope, from root kli to lean. See Lean.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AcclivitySynonyms: ascent (n), climb (n), raise (n), rise (n), upgrade (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: descent (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ascent | Noun: ascent, ascension; rising; acclivity, hill; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder |
Obliquity | Acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis descensus averni. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Acclivity |
| English words defined with "acclivity": Acclivities ♦ Reascent. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "acclivity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpat që lartësohet. (various references) | |
Arabic | حدب (camber, hump, humping). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стръмнина (slide, steep), нагорнище. (various references) | |
Chinese | 上斜 (Acclivities). (various references) | |
Czech | úboèí (flank, hillside). (various references) | |
Danish | skrænt (hillside, slope). (various references) | |
Dutch | helling (angle of inclination, batter, building berth, building slip, building slipway, cant, declivity of hill, dip, grade, gradient, gradient of slope, heel, heeling, hillside, inclination, pitch, pitched roof area, plunge, rake, ramp, slip, slipway, slope, stocks, strike, surface slope, taper, tilt, waterslope), glooiing (escarpment, hillside, scarp, slope, talus). (various references) | |
Esperanto | deklivo (hillside, slope). (various references) | |
Faeroese | halli (hillside, slope), brekka (hillside, slope). (various references) | |
Finnish | rinne (declivity, descent, hillside, mountainside, slope). (various references) | |
French | pente. (various references) | |
German | Steigung (draft, grade, gradient, lead, pitch, rise, riser, rising, slope, upgrade, uprising, upward slope). (various references) | |
Greek | κλίση (angle of inclination, aptitude, bend, bent, bias, cant, careen, conjugation, declivity of hill, depression, flair, flexion, gradient, gradient of slope, inclination, inflection, inflexion, lay, leaning, list, penchant, pitch, proclivity, propensity, slant, slope, subsidence slope, taper, tendency, tilt, tipping), ανωφέρεια (upgrade, upwards grade), ανηφορία (uphill). (various references) | |
Hungarian | emelkedõ (ramp, upgrade, uphill, upward). (various references) | |
Italian | pendio (addictiveness, ascent, descent, fall, hang, hill, hillside, hillslope, incline, rise, scree, slope, talus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acclivityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ladeira (ascent, bank, coast, declension, gradient, hang, Hill, hillside, ramp, rise, side, slant, slope, tilt), encosta (bank, downhill, grade, gradient, Hill, hillside, ridge, side, slope). (various references) | |
Romanian | rampã (banister, banisters, barrier, float, footlights, grade, handrail, limelight, platform, ramp, slope, stage-lights), pantã (chute, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, glacis, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, ramp, slant, slope, splay, tilt, up). (various references) | |
Russian | подъем (ascent, climb, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, instep, lift, lifting, raise, reveille, rise, rouse, take off, up, upgrade, uplift, uprise, upsurge, upswing, upturn, verve). (various references) | |
Scottish | uchdach (ascent, breastplate), fruan, bruthach (a brae: *brut-acos, ascent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzbrdica (climb, rise). (various references) | |
Spanish | cuesta (ascent, costs, does it cost, Hill, hillside, incline, it costs, rise, slope, step, upgrade), subida (accession, advance, appreciation, ascent, boarding, clamber, climb, improvement, increase, lifting, raise, rise, rising). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppförsbacke (ascent, rise, uphill), stigning (ascent, climb, gradient, lay, lead, pitch, rise, rising, rising period, upgrade, uphill, upwards grade). (various references) | |
Turkish | yokuş (ascent, bank, declination, descent, dip, downgrade, glacis, Hill, incline, pitch, raise, ramp, slope, upgrade), bayır (ascent, Brae, declivity, Foothill, glacis, slope). (various references) | |
Ukranian | пологий узвіз, пологий підйом. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dốc ngược (acclivous). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhiw (ascent, hill). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | clinamen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Acclivity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acivity, aclivity, ecclivity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "acclivity" (pronounced 'Ac*cliv"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Callosity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity, Ethereality. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-i-l-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: cavity, clitic, clivia, italic, lactic, viatic. | |
-4 letters: cacti, cavil, cilia, civic, civil, clavi, icily, ictic, iliac, laity, licit, litai, lytic, tical, vatic, vital. | |
-5 letters: acyl, alit, cavy, city, clay, clit, ilia, lacy, laic, lati, tail, talc, tali, tivy, vail, vial, vita. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-i-l-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: volcanicity, vulcanicity. | |
+3 letters: capacitively. | |
+5 letters: conceivability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 63 6C 69 76 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. .-.. .. ...- .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01101100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c l i v i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 006C 0069 0076 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356969787588758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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