Hi everyone,
Now that you're talking about drainage
inclinations, I'd like to pose a lexical question:
Which is the difference between 'inclination' and 'slope'?
As far as I can see, I gather that in English both
are interchangeable terms that denote
so the angle between some plane with
Anselmo,
In the general you are correct. In English
they basically mean the same.
My dictionary says that slope is the "degree of deviation
from the horizontal.: Whereas "inclination is the degree of deviation from
a definite direction, especially from the horizontalor vertical."
WhatI
John,
Longer ago than I care to remember I attended lectures on building construction
and
remember that the fall needed for drainge was 1 in 400 for surface water, and 1
in 40
for sewage.The greater the fall the faster it drains, and I suspect the
figures I
have mentioned are minimum.
I
Hi Anselmo et al,
You're right - in English slope and inclination both refer to the angle to
the horizontal. This applies both to general usage and the specialist gnomonic
usage (as defined by the BSS Sundial Glossary at www.sundialsoc.org.uk)
However, whilst the inclination is usually given
Anselmo Pérez Serrada wrote:
Now that you're talking about drainage inclinations, I'd like to pose a
lexical question:
Which is the difference between 'inclination' and 'slope'?
As far as I can see, I gather that in English both are interchangeable
terms that denote so the angle between some
