TEMPERATURE GRADIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does temperature gradient mean? 

• TEMPERATURE GRADIENT (noun)
  The noun TEMPERATURE GRADIENT has 1 sense:

1. change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)

  Familiarity information: TEMPERATURE GRADIENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEMPERATURE GRADIENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("temperature gradient" is a kind of...):

gradient (a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension)