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Word: streamline (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • meteorology On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • by extension To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
  • 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 To modernise.

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