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:
“I incline to think that the people will not now sustain the policy of upholding a State Government against a rival government, by the use of the forces of the United States. If this leads to the overthrow of the de jure government in a State, the de facto government must be recognized.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“If Jesus, or his likeness, should now visit the earth, what church of the many which now go by his name would he enter? Or, if tempted by curiosity, he should incline to look into all, which do you think would not shut the door in his face?... It seems to me ... that as one who loved peace, taught industry, equality, union, and love, one towards another, Jesus were he alive at this day, would recommend you to come out of your churches of faith, and to gather into schools of knowledge.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“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)