Slope

The incline, or steepness, of a surface, measured in degrees from horizontal (0–90), or percent slope (the rise divided by the run, multiplied by 100). The slope of a TIN face is the steepest downhill slope of a plane defined by the face; the slope for a cell in a raster is the steepest slope of a plane defined by the cell and its eight surrounding neighbors.

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