отко́с — meaning in English
otkos
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English meaning
- declivity noun A downward slope or incline.
- escarpment noun A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
- inclination noun A tendency or preference to think or act in a certain way.
- slope noun A stretch of ground that rises or falls at an angle; or the steepness of any such surface or line.
- splay verb To open something out or make it spread wider.
Senses
отко́с is used for these senses in English:
- declivity (geomorphology) The downward slope of a curve.
- escarpment A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
- inclination A slant or slope.
- slope An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- splay A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
declivity — full definition
- noun A downward slope or incline.
- noun A place where a path bends or slopes downward.
- noun (entomology) A part of an insect's hard outer shell that curves inward, such as between segments.
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