temperature gradient

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   change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)

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Questions about temperature gradient

What does temperature gradient mean?

temperature gradient means "change in temperature as a function of distance (especially altitude)".

Is temperature gradient a common word?

temperature gradient is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.