Word Meanings - ACCLIVITOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acclivous. I. Taylor.

TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
ACCLIVOUS
Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.