Slope

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Slope means an area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward or the degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

In mathematics slope means the ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line. (That will be zero if the line is horizontal, infinite if it is vertical.)