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upgradient

The English word “upgradient” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. A position up along a gradient from a starting position.
  2. a location that is the source groundwater for another location; similar to upstream.

adverb

  1. The reverse direction along a gradient.
  2. a direction that groundwater flows from.

Etymology

From up- + gradient.

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