• Streamline

    Full definition of streamline

    Noun

    streamline

    (plural streamlines)
    1. (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.
    2. (meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
    2. (transitive, by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
    3. (transitive) To modernise.

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