A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
A weakening.
Downward movement, fall.
A reduction or diminution of activity.
The act of declining or refusing something.
To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
To become weaker or worse.
To recite all the different declined forms of (a word).
A slope or incline.
The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
A differential operator that maps each point of a scalar field to a vector pointed in the direction of the greatest rate of change of the scalar. Notation for a scalar field φ: ∇φ
A gradual change in color. A color gradient; gradation.
The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
Moving by steps; walking.
Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination.