Steply

Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb

Meaning

Misspelling of steeply..

Definitions by Sense

1. Misspelling of steeply.
2. Step by step; gradually; in steps; stepwise.
3. Stepwise; gradual.

Example Sentences

Away to the southwest, beyond the patches of firwood and the gray, steply rolling land, there toned the far diapason of artillery; strings of army transport, Red Cross vehicles, and miscellaneous men straggled upon the road.

It was also supposed by Clapp that the steply-dipping sandstones and shales exposed along the Chemainus river and forming the base of Mount Prevost were unconformably overlain by the gently dipping conglomerates […]

Crossbedding in the gray sandstones shows that it is now right side up, and in Flagstaff time it was therefore on the east flank of a steply folded anticline.

Some of the most significant Paleozoic inliers occur near Las Delicias in southwestern Coahuila, 480 km (300 miles) south of the Marathon region, where a thick sequence of marine Permian with volcanic components has been steply folded […]

For an instance, the disadventages about the die CAD system are as the following: * CAD technique can only participate in the design process partially and steply.

The electron-hole pairs produced on this way cause a steply rise of the reverse current (i.e. field emission).

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• more steply
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