streamline
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streamline (plural streamlines)
- (physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
- (meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
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line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid
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meteorology: line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of the wind
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Verb[edit]
streamline (third-person singular simple present streamlines, present participle streamlining, simple past and past participle streamlined)
- (transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
- (transitive, by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
- (transitive) To modernise.
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to design an object so as to offer least resistance to its flow through a fluid
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to simplify a process
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to modernise
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