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French term or phrase:	les pentes à l'infini
English translation:	infinite slopes
Entered by:	Kalyani Menon

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10:53am May 21, 2006

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French term or phrase: les pentes à l'infini

I think there must be a technical term but I cant find anything anywhere. Is it 'gradients/points of infinity' or something like that ?
Many thanks

Cervin

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Questions: 13 (all closed)
Answers: 403

United Kingdom

infinite slopes

Explanation:
There are quite a few hits on on google

Selected response from:

Kalyani Menon
India

Note from asker to answerer

Very many thanks to everyone. I wish I could share the points round
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

infinite slopes

Kalyani Menon

slopes to infinity

Michael Barnett

Answers

40 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

infinite slopes

Explanation:
There are quite a few hits on on google

Kalyani Menon
India
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 2

Note from asker to answerer

Very many thanks to everyone. I wish I could share the points round

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

writeaway: imo, just referring to the number of google hits as a reference is not really helpful-providing a reference to show why this is the right translation would be more helpful to Asker.

32 mins

-> I believe that the Asker is competent enough to find out if the answer is appropriate, given the fact that he has not provided more context.

agree

Bourth: ("infinite slopes" + mathematics + graph) gets over 100 ghits

3 hrs

agree

Tony M: More context would help us to be sure, but the usual way I would interpret this would be 'infinitely steep slopes', for which of course 'infinite slope' is perfect

5 hrs

neutral

Michael Barnett: I agree with Dusty's interpretation, but "infinite slopes" could also mean an "infinite number of slopes".

5 hrs

5 hrs confidence:

slopes to infinity

Explanation:
On a graph, the slope of the curve is dy/dx in mathematical terms. Thus as the slope approaches 90 degrees it approaches infinity.

Michael Barnett
Canada
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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French: les pentes à l'infini

English translation: infinite slopes