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Definition of Steepening

Steepening
Steepen Steep"en, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Steepened; p. pr. & vb. n. Steepening.] To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. --H. Miller.

Meaning of Steepening from wikipedia

- forces which are exerted on the surface. Shock waves can form due to steepening of ordinary waves. The best-known example of this phenomenon is ocean...
- sufficient vision can no longer be achieved by contact lenses due to steepening of the cornea, scarring, or lens intolerance, corneal cross-linking is...
- the cornea in one direction. In keratoconus, progressive thinning and steepening of the cornea cause irregular astigmatism. In eyes without astigmatism...
- emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the **** barrow up an ever-steepening hill." The earliest uses of the idiom in widely available U.S. periodicals...
- surface. It is widely held[by whom?] that a common cause for headwall steepening and extension headward is the crev****es known as bergschrund that occur...
- Weatherby Mark V. The .280 AI is basically the .280 Remington redesigned by steepening its case shoulder and straightening the sidewalls to near parallel, thus...
- movement of a glacier is faster than elsewhere, because the glacier bed steepens or narrows, and the flow cannot be accommodated by plastic deformation...
- changes in plate motion and episodes of regional slab shallowing and steepening resulted in variations in the magnitude of crustal shortening and amounts...
- with that of pressure increases, which gets narrower with time until they steepen into shock waves. A natural example of rarefaction occurs in the layers...
- p**** without cloudiness. Frontogenesis is the process of creating or steepening the temperature gradient of a front. During this process the atmosphere...