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An inclined walking or working surface that is used to gain access to one point from another. A ramp may be constructed from earth or from structural materials such as steel or wood.

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
ramp (verb)
intransitive verb
1.
a) to stand or advance menacingly with forelegs or with arms raised
b) to move or act furiously
2.
to creep up - used especially of plants
3.
transitive verb
to speed up, expand, or increase especially quickly or at a constant rate - used with up ramping up to full speed (electrical waveform) to increase, expand, or decrease especially quickly or at a constant rate - usually used with up or down ramp up production
ramp (noun)
the act or an instance of - ramping
ramp (noun)
any of various alliums used for food
ramp (noun)
1.
a sloping way or plane as
a) a sloping floor, walk, or roadway leading from one level to another
b) a slope for launching boats
2.
- apron
Ramp (Wikipedia)

An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle from the vertical direction, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load. The inclined plane is one of the six classical simple machines defined by Renaissance scientists. Inclined planes are used to move heavy loads over vertical obstacles. Examples vary from a ramp used to load goods into a truck, to a person walking up a pedestrian ramp, to an automobile or railroad train climbing a grade.

Wheelchair ramp, Hotel Montescot, Chartres, France
Demonstration inclined plane used in education, Museo Galileo, Florence.

Moving an object up an inclined plane requires less force than lifting it straight up, at a cost of an increase in the distance moved. The mechanical advantage of an inclined plane, the factor by which the force is reduced, is equal to the ratio of the length of the sloped surface to the height it spans. Owing to conservation of energy, the same amount of mechanical energy (work) is required to lift a given object by a given vertical distance, disregarding losses from friction, but the inclined plane allows the same work to be done with a smaller force exerted over a greater distance.

The angle of friction, also sometimes called the angle of repose, is the maximum angle at which a load can rest motionless on an inclined plane due to friction without sliding down. This angle is equal to the arctangent of the coefficient of static friction μs between the surfaces.

Two other simple machines are often considered to be derived from the inclined plane. The wedge can be considered a moving inclined plane or two inclined planes connected at the base. The screw consists of a narrow inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.

The term may also refer to a specific implementation; a straight ramp cut into a steep hillside for transporting goods up and down the hill. This may include cars on rails or pulled up by a cable system; a funicular or cable railway, such as the Johnstown Inclined Plane.

Ramp (Wiktionary)

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹæmp/
  • Rhymes: -æmp

Etymology 1

From French rampe, from Middle French rampe, deverbal of ramper, from Old French ramper (to crawl, climb, scale up), from Frankish *hrampōn (to contract oneself, wrinkle, rumple, crumple, curve), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (to shrivel, shrink). Cognate with German Rampf (retraction, curvature, shrinkage, spasm). Doublet

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