graduated

porrastettu, asteikolla varustettu, asteittainen, asteittain lisääntyvä

kalibroitu (en-past of)
puhekieltä In steps.
Having a university degree; having completed training.
Marked with graduations.
Arranged by grade, level, degree.
1888, Joseph Stevens, A Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, with an Account of the Manor of Hurstbourne Priors, Hants, London: Whiting and Co., p 17:

The graduated slope of the Upper Test Valley on the east, and its more abrupt embankment on the west, under which the present stream tends to cling, point clearly to river action.