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Topic: NATURE

slope

1 noun
     
slope1 W3
1 [countable]DN a piece of ground or a surface that slopes:
a gentle (=not steep) slope
She looked back up the grassy slope.
2 an area of steep ground covered with snow that people ski down:
We got to Tahoe on Friday, and hit the slopes (=skied on them) the next day.
3 [singular] the angle at which something slopes in relation to a flat surface:
a slope of 30 degrees
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