gradual

adj 1: proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices"

[ant: {sudden}]

2: of a topographical gradient; not steep or abrupt; "a gradual

slope" [ant: {steep}]

n : (Roman Catholic) an antiphon (usually from the Book of

Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass

GRAAL

("Grail") General Recursive Applicative and Algorithmic

Language. FP with polyadic combinators. "Graal: A Functional

Programming System with Uncurryfied Combinators and its

Reduction Machine", P. Bellot in ESOP 86, G. Goos ed, LNCS

213, Springer 1986.