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1. misspellingMisspelling of steeply.

   Crossbedding in the gray sandstones shows that it is now right side up, and in Flagstaff time it was therefore on the east flank of a steply folded anticline.

   1949, Edmund Maute Spieker, The transition between the Colorado Plateaus and the Great Basin

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   It was also supposed by Clapp that the steply-dipping sandstones and shales exposed along the Chemainus river and forming the base of Mount Prevost were unconformably overlain by the gently dipping conglomerates […]

   1914, Geological Survey of Canada, Summary report - Geological Survey Department

   Away to the southwest, beyond the patches of firwood and the gray, steply rolling land, there toned the far diapason of artillery; strings of army transport, Red Cross vehicles, and miscellaneous men straggled upon the road.

   1915, Current history and Forum

2. Step by step; gradually; in steps; stepwise.

   For an instance, the disadventages about the die CAD system are as the following: * CAD technique can only participate in the design process partially and steply.

   1992, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. Congress, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, ICAS proceedings, 1992

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   Some of the most significant Paleozoic inliers occur near Las Delicias in southwestern Coahuila, 480 km (300 miles) south of the Marathon region, where a thick sequence of marine Permian with volcanic components has been steply folded […]

   1969, Geological Survey (U.S.), U.S. Geological Survey professional paper

comparative more steply · superlative most steply

1. Stepwise; gradual.

   The electron-hole pairs produced on this way cause a steply rise of the reverse current (i.e. field emission).

   1968, International Measurement Congress, International Measurements Conference, Acta IMEKO