steepest in English

adjective

1

(of a slope, flight of stairs, angle, ascent, etc.) rising or falling sharply; nearly perpendicular.

she pushed the bike up the steep hill

synonyms: precipitous, sheer, abrupt, sharp, perpendicular, vertical, bluff, vertiginous

2

(of a price or demand) not reasonable; excessive.

a steep membership fee

synonyms: expensive, costly, high, stiff, unreasonable, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive, dear

adjective

precipitous, sheer, abrupt, sharp, perpendicular, vertical, bluff, vertiginous
sharp, sudden, precipitate, precipitous, rapid
expensive, costly, high, stiff, unreasonable, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, prohibitive, dear
usurious, exorbitant, outrageous, extortionate, unconscionable

Use "steepest" in a sentence

1. New Zealand’s Steepest State Highway

2. Suppose that the steepest slope on a hill is 40%.

3. The locals call the steepest and longest hill Heartbreak Hill.

4. So the graph of Kuomintang power, haltingly, but ever declining approached its steepest drop.

5. Subsequently, the trail crosses the path of the Pöstlingbergbahn, the steepest adhesion railway in Europe.

6. The FX market witnessed the steepest appreciation the greenback against the Euro since 19

7. For nearly three months in 1904, the CGTE also operated the steepest adhesion railway in Switzerland.

8. There in the heart of Panem's steepest mountain range lies The Capitol's principal military facility.

9. The steepest angle that a cohesionless slope can maintain without losing its stability is known as its angle of repose.

10. It propelled capitalism up the longest and steepest economic incline in history, but at a cost.

11. I am sure this must be the steepest natural gradient of temperature on the surface of our planet.

12. If a road goes directly up the hill, then the steepest slope on the road will also be 40%.

13. This, not his ethical problems, caused the steepest dive in his national popularity, to its current nadir.

14. Astigmatic keratotomy eye surgery corrects astigmatism by making one or two incisions at the steepest part of the cornea

15. You have substeps, which all lead to what we really want to talk about: which section is the steepest.

16. Whether fitting into the tightest spots or hauling up the steepest grades, Detroit ® Axles meet the toughest demands

17. In the Boppard–Boppard-Buchholz section, the line climbs 336 metres and is still the steepest railway in Germany using adhesion only.

18. Existence of an optimal control is proved, the cost function gradient is found using the adjoint state and the steepest descent algorithm is used.

19. In addition to its international migration pattern, Iran also exhibits one of the steepest urban growth rates in the world according to the UN humanitarian information unit.

20. It also ranks as the highest adhesion railway of the continent, and – with inclines of up to 7% – as one of the steepest adhesion railways in the world.

21. The steepest side of the hill faces the direction from which the ice advanced (stoss), while a longer slope is left in the ice's direction of movement (lee).

22. It is the steepest adhesion railway in Switzerland with a gradient of up to 8.0% and forms part of the network of the Appenzell Railways (AB) and the St. Gallen S-Bahn.

23. The report points out that “the HIV infection rate in the former Soviet Union has more than doubled in the past two years, the steepest increase in the world.”

24. The trail there is a constant climb; and just before reaching the top, the climber encounters the steepest part of the trail; and views of the canyon are hidden by the cliffs themselves.

25. A process and device for dividing a bulk material flow into several partial flows are characterized in that a chute (6) has a slope that is steeper than the steepest foreseeable natural angle of repose of the bulk materials.

26. In particular, four different approaches are presented and exemplified by the analysis of representative DCE data: the steepest-gradient method, model-free algebraic deconvolution in combination with the indicator-dilution theory, two-compartment modelling and the so-called adiabatic approximation to the homogeneity model.

27. The work reported here suggests that in order to obtain convergence to the absolute minimum with the McWeeny method it is often necessary to provide a very good initial approximation and that the rate of convergence could be improved by replacing the Steepest Descent by a more powerful minimization technique.