Usually means: Slope descending downwards, opposite incline.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. declivity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. declivity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. declivity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. declivity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. declivity: Vocabulary.com
  6. declivity: Wordnik
  7. declivity: Wiktionary
  8. declivity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. declivity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. declivity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Declivity, declivity: Dictionary.com
  12. declivity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Declivity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. declivity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. declivity: Rhymezone
  16. Declivity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. declivity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. declivity: Free Dictionary
  19. declivity: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. declivity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. declivity: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. declivity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. declivity: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Declivity: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (declivity)

noun:  (geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve.
noun:  A downward bend in a path.
noun:  (entomology) An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward.

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