downgradient

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective A position down along a gradient from a starting position.
2. adjective a location that receives groundwater from another location; similar to downstream.

   Monitoring wells are installed downgradient of a contamination source to detect a contaminant plume.

3. adverb The direction along a gradient.
4. adverb a direction that groundwater flows toward.

Similar words

downbound intergradient upgradient downward downmost downcoming down bottomward downrange downlevel

Often followed by

of from wells monitoring well edge direction in side