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declivity englanniksi
(RQ:Swift Gulliver)
1780, Theodore Augustine Mann, ''A Treatise on Rivers and Canals'', ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London'', Volume 69: For the Year 1779, Part II, 582,
- The velocity of flowing waters is very far from being in proportion to the quantity of declivity in their bed:(..).
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(RQ:Conrad Heart of Darkness)
1908 Griffin & Company, John Harvard Biles, ''The Design and Construction of Ships, Volume I: Calculations and Strength'', 2009, Europāischer Hochschulverlag (Salzwasser-Verlag), page 216,
- The declivity of the keel blocks varies slightly with the size of the vessel. The larger the vessel, the less the declivity.
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An inward curve of the exoskeleton of an insect, such as between body segments; a segment of an insect's body where the exoskeleton curves inward.
1979, ''Entomology Circular'', Issue 200, Part 366, Division of Plant Industry, page number not shown,
- Males of all species have more developed armature of the elytral declivity than females (Figs. S, 6, 8, 9, 11-14).
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