steepen in the PONS Dictionary

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Forward-slip is used to steepen an approach (reduce height) without gaining much airspeed, benefiting from the increased drag.
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The captain extended the spoilers (speed brakes) and steepened the descent.
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Warping or faulting of a drainage basin will steepen the stream gradient followed by the downcutting.
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For instance, suppose we know the amount by which the yield curve has steepened at each key rate maturity.
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The original roof had a sixty degree pitch, though it has been steepened during the house's various restorations.
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It is widely held that a common cause for headwall steepening and extension headward is the crevasses known as bergschrund that occur between the moving ice and the headwall.
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To this point, gradients were gentle, but they now steepened to 1 in 66 on the climb up to the bridge.
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Having no flaps or other drag-producing devices, we resorted to the time-proven sideslip to steepen our approaches, up to 1200 fpm.
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Streams would then begin to steepen, which would result in the formation of younger and steeper fan segment.
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These burns cause a ring of constriction on the peripheral cornea causing the cornea to steepen making the eye focus better at near.
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