Gradual

(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass.

(adj.) proceeding in small stages; 'a gradual increase in prices' .

(adj.) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt; 'a gradual slope' .

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• He pretended to no gradual change of views; he wheeled about at once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Have you observed any gradual alteration in Papa? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The figures following each other show consecutively a gradual progression, or change in position. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The author apparently believes that organisation progresses by sudden leaps, but that the effects produced by the conditions of life are gradual. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• A long, gradual ascent is better than a shorter, steeper one. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The change has evidently been too sudden to be ascribed to any change in the value of silver, which is always slow and gradual. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In this case a gradual change of structure is supposed to lead to changed instinctive habits. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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