Incline, inclined, inclining, or inclination may refer to:
- Incline, California
- Inclined plane, a flat surface whose endpoints are at different heights
- Inclined orbit, an orbital plane is tipped away from the equator
- Inclination (and a novella of the same name)
- cable hauled railways, a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains
- Inclined loop
- Inclined rig, a method of rigging a sail to direct the force of the sails in such a way as to reduce heeling
- Inclined soles, a sub-category of footwear where the position of the heel is inverted relative to the position of the toes
- Inclined tower, a tower that was intentionally built at an incline
- Inclining test, to determine a ship's stability and the coordinates of its center of gravity
- Funicular (or funicular railway, a type of cable railway), a cable railway in which a cable attached moves cars up and down a steep slope
- Slope, steepness, incline, or grade of a line
- Grade (slope), of a topographic feature or constructed element
Famous quotes containing the word incline:
“Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement—a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”
—David Elkind (20th century)