Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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gradient

/ˈɡɹeɪdiənt/ noun, adjective

Forms gradients

  1. noun A slope or incline.
  2. noun A rate of inclination or declination of a slope.
  3. noun (calculus, of a function) The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.
  4. noun (sciences) The rate at which a physical quantity increases or decreases relative to change in a given variable, especially distance.
  5. noun (calculus) 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
  6. noun A gradual change in color; a color gradient; gradation.
  7. adjective Moving by steps; walking.
  8. adjective Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination. “the gradient line of a railroad”
  9. adjective Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds.
  10. adjective (calculus, optimization) Using the gradient to solve a problem.

Synonyms

hill incline ramp slope grade angular coefficient

Etymology

From Latin gradiēns, present participle of gradior (“to step, to walk”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata. Wilkins.
  2. adjective Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
  3. noun The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.
  4. noun A part of a road which slopes upward or downward; a portion of a way not level; a grade.

Etymology [L. gradiens, p. pr. of gradi to step, to go. See Grade.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “gradient”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details