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  • 1Hill Start Assist — is a variant of Hill holder used by some semi automatic, clutchless transmissions. The system prevents the car from rolling away when trying to pull away on an up or down gradient, simulating a handbrake hill start manual drivers will be familiar …

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  • 2hill — [n] uprising of earth’s surface; pile acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa,… …

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  • 3hill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. grade, slope; rise, ascent; elevation, mound. See height, convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. mound, knoll, hillock, butte, mesa, bluff, promontory, precipice, cliff, range, rising ground, headland,… …

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  • 4hill — Synonyms and related words: acclivity, anthill, bank, bank up, barrow, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, brae, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, butte, button, cahot, chine, clump, cock, condyle, convex, decline,… …

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  • 5Anstey Hill Recreation Park — Infobox protected area of Australia | name = Anstey Hill Recreation Park iucn category = III caption = Quarry in the northwest of Anstey Hill Recreation Park locator x = locator y = nearest town or city = Adelaide coordinates =… …

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  • 6Nonlinear conjugate gradient method — In numerical optimization, the nonlinear conjugate gradient method generalizes the conjugate gradient method to nonlinear optimization. For a quadratic function : The minimum of f is obtained when the gradient is 0: . Whereas linear conjugate… …

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  • 7Big Hill — s and remains so to this day. It cannot be said that the railway ever conquered the mountains, only that the railway copes with the challenge and the mountains tolerate the railway. To complete the Pacific railway as quickly as possible, a… …

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  • 8Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb — The Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb is a hillclimb in Worcestershire, England, organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC). It is one of the oldest motorsport events in the world, and is in fact the oldest to have been staged continuously… …

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  • 9Noar Hill — seen from the north west, just below Selborne Common Noar Hill, near Selborne in East Hampshire, is best known for its nature reserve. Contents 1 …

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  • 10Sound speed gradient — In acoustics, the sound speed gradient is the rate of change of the speed of sound with distance, for example with depth in the ocean,cite book title=Navy Supplement to the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms month=August year=2006… …

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