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Definition: Streamline |
StreamlineVerb1. Contour economically or efficiently. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | A line whose tangent at any point in a fluid is parallel to the instantaneous velocity vector of the fluid at that point. The differential equations of the streamlines may be written dr X v = 0, where dr is an element of the streamline and v is the velocity vector; or in Cartesian coordinates, dx / u = dy /v = dz /w, where u, v, w, are the fluid velocities along the orthogonal X, Y, Z axes, respectively.In steady-state flow the streamlines coincide with the trajectories of the fluid particles; otherwise, the streamline pattern changes with time. See free streamline. Compare trajectory. (references) |
Economics | To bring up to date, renovate. Source: European Union. (references) |
| To make simpler or more efficient. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | A curve which is parallel to the instantaneous direction of the wind vector at all points along it. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Line envelope of the tangents to the instantaneous flow direction at a given time. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A hypothetical line that shows the velocity direction of the fluid stream at each point along the line. Streamlines do not therefore cross each other. A set of streamlines charts the flow pattern. If the flow is steady then the streamline pattern does not change with time. If, however, the streamlines are continually changing shape the flow is unsteady. (references) |
Physics | The line whose tangents give the direction of motion of a flowing material at any one instant. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Due to the way fluids interact in a flow, the flow is often complex. For instance, in a stream the water at the top middle is moving faster than the water at the bottom or sides. This is because the water in contact with the earth experiences drag, slowing down the water beside it, and so on.
A streamline becomes important when such a flow is distrurbed by some solid object, like a rock in the water. In this case similar drag forces cause the water to move around the rock in a complex fashion. However for each point upstream from the rock, there is a particular path to the downstream side. This is the streamline.
Attempting to make as smooth a streamline as possible is a common task in engineering. A smooth streamline implies as little distrubance of the fluid as possible, and thus as little wasted energy as possible. For a vehicle moving through a fluid, careful design can lead to considerable improvements in economy or performance.
Engineers often use dyes in water or smoke in air in order to see existing streamlines, and then modify the designs to reduce the drag. This task is known as streamlining, and the resulting design is referred to as being streamlined. Streamlined designs are often esthetically pleasing to the eye as well.
The same terms have since become common vernacular to describe any process that smooths an operation. For instance, its common to hear references streamlining a business practice, or operation.
related terms: streakline, filament line
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Streamline."
Crosswords: Streamline |
| English words defined with "streamline": laminar flow. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "streamline": Administrative convergence, anticyclonic rotation ♦ Blaton formula ♦ cross beam, cyclonic rotation ♦ Farm Credit System, free streamline ♦ Howell-bunger valve, Hydraulic Grade Line, hyperbolic point ♦ neutral point, non-uniform flow, NPR ♦ refactoring ♦ slotted duct sampler, steady flow ♦ transverse strut ♦ varying flow. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Streamline Express (1935) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Streamline car. Sunnyside yard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | At the same time, companies started to integrate global supply chains to cut costs and streamline their operations. (references) | |
The most important is the installation of a Vessel Tracking System (VTS) that would streamline traffic in and out of both ports. (references) | ||
The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has confirmed that the ministry is presently reviewing the final details to change the terms of the civil aviation Law to make ECAA an independent authority, which should streamline the BOT tender and project execution processes. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | United Kingdom | Faced with growing numbers of asylum applicants, the Government passed legislation in 1999 designed to deter illegal entrants and the abuse of the asylum process, streamline the appeals process, and restrict benefits provided to asylum seekers. (references) |
Economic History | Yemen | Efforts to reform and streamline the tendering system are ongoing. (references) |
Chad | Efforts are being made to simplify tax laws and streamline government procedures. (references) | |
Human Rights | South Africa | There are nine provincial directors and offices to coordinate and streamline prosecutions. (references) |
Guatemala | The project is intended to streamline legal cases involving minors and train judges about the human rights of children. (references) | |
Croatia | Governmental promises made in previous years to reform and streamline the housing commissions were unfulfilled at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | The Brazilian government is working on a project to broaden criminal penalties and streamline the judicial process. (references) |
PHILIPPINES | The designation of 48 courts to handle IPR violations has done little to streamline judicial proceedings, as these courts have not received additional resources and continue to handle a heavy non-IPR workload. (references) | |
Moldova | For example, some local governments take an active role in encouraging investments in their territories and promoting foreign trade, lobby for establishing free economic zones and setting up business incubators and streamline business registration and supervision procedures. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Legislation pending in the parliament may improve and streamline the standardization process. (references) |
France | An ATA carnet is a special international customs document designed to simplify and streamline customs entry procedures for merchandise into participation countries for up to one year. (references) | |
India | To make necessary imported goods more easily available, including essential capital goods for modernizing and upgrading technology; To simplify and streamline procedures for import licensing; and To promote efficient import substitution and self-reliance. (references) | |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I propose to take steps to modernize and streamline the executive branch, to modernize the relations between city and State and Nation. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | So we've got to streamline today's patchwork of training programs and make them a source of new skills for our people who lose their jobs. |
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| "Streamline" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 53.52% of the time. "Streamline" is used about 142 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 53.52% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.87% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.08% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 142 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "streamline": streamline flow ♦ streamline motion ♦ streamline shape. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | trajektore (track, trajectory), kufi lumi, formë aerodinamike. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, systematize, verse), تياري, خط إنسيابي, إنسيابي, أزال الدسم, أرشد (brief, direct, guide, instruct, lead, lead about, marshal, officer, pilot, tutor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | естествено течение на въздух, естествено течение на вода, придавам аеродинамична форма на. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 流线. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | usmìrnit (channel), urychlit proces, racionalizovat (rationalize), proudnice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | strømningslinie, strømlinie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stroomlijn (line of seepage, phreatic surface). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ساده وموثرکردن , دارای شکلی که مقاومت هواراکم کند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | virtaviiva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rationaliser, moderniser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stromlinie (air flow, air stream, airflow, flow line, stream line), rationalisieren (rationalize, to rationalize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρευματογραμμή ανέμου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפשט וליעל. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | áramvonal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | linea di flusso (flow line, stream line), linea di corrente (flow line, stream line), linea aerodinamica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manx | stroo-linney, cur stroolinnney er. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eamlinestray superintendência (direction, inspectorate, oversight, superintendence), simplificar (oversimplify, reduce, simplify), linha do fluxo de vento, direção (address, channel, conduct, control, course, direction, drift, lay, leading, line, management, march, rein, running, steering wheel, superintendence, supervision, trend, tune-up, way), chefia (command, direction, guidance, headship, leadership, leading, management, supervision), administração (administration, direction, management, march, running, stewardship, trusteeship). (various references) обтекаемый (inswept, streamlined), обтекаемая форма, направление (course, directing, direction, directions, ism, lead, range, route, run, school, trend), линия обтекания. (various references) strujnica, strujnički (spirant), dati aerodinamičan oblik. (various references) línea de corriente (air flow, air stream, airflow). (various references) strömningslinje, strömlinjeforma, strömlinje (line of flow, path, path line, streakline), effektivisera (make more effective). (various references) uygun hale getirmek (predispose), modernize etmek (modernize, rearm, revamp, update), kolaylaştırmak (be helpful, catalyze, ease, expedite, facilitate, further, make a dent in, make easy, pave the way, pave the way for, remit, short circuit, simplify, smooth, smooth the way), akış çizgisi, aerodinamik şekilli (streamlined), aerodinamik şekilde yapmak, aerodinamik şekil (streamline shape), aerodinamik (aerodynamic, aerodynamical, aerodynamics, streamlined). (various references) обтічна форма, напрям течії, надавати обтічної форми, лінія обтікання, прискорювати (accelerate, advance, anticipate, expedite, forward, hasten, hurry, precipitate, push, rattle through, speed, speed up, swiften). (various references) lu"ng không khí dáng thuôn, dòng nước (back-set, nullah), có dáng thuôn (streamlined), có dáng khí động. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "streamline": streamlined, streamliner, streamliners, streamlines. (additional references) | |
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"Streamline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sstreamline, steamline, strealine, streamling. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "streamline" (pronounced strē"mlī'n) |
| 4 | -m l ī' n | hemline. |
| 3 | -l ī' n | airline, alkaline, anticline, baseline, bloodline, borderline, byline, coastline, crystalline, Dateline, deadline, dragline, feline, frontline, guideline, hairline, hardline, headline, hotline, lifeline, mainline, midline, multiline, online, outline, pipeline, shoreline, sideline, skyline, strandline, Timberline, underline, waistline. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antimeres, elaterins, enamelist, entailers, intermale, lamenters, materiels, melanites, mislearnt, misrelate, nearliest, terminals, tramlines, treenails. | |
-2 letters: ailments, alieners, aliments, antimere, arenites, arsenite, ateliers, earliest, elaterin, emeritas, emirates, enlister, entailer, entrails, etamines, eternals, lamenter, lamister, latrines, leariest, listener, manliest, marliest, marlines, marlites, materiel, matinees, mealiest, measlier, melanist, melanite, metalise, minarets, minerals, minstrel, misalter, miseaten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: derailments, externalism, planimeters, regimentals, salinometer, sempiternal, streamlined, streamliner, streamlines. | |
+2 letters: detrimentals, externalisms, masterliness, materialness, realignments, salinometers, streamliners. | |
+3 letters: ceremonialist, credentialism, radioelements, sempiternally. | |
+4 letters: ceremonialists, cholestyramine, credentialisms, elementariness, incrementalism, incrementalist, indemonstrable, interlacements, intermenstrual, intermetallics, intersegmental, laryngectomies, masterlinesses, materialnesses, metronidazoles, presentimental, reminiscential, steamrollering, telemarketings, terminableness. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomies, blameworthiness, cholestyramines, complementaries, demonstratively, deuteranomalies, eclaircissement, electrodynamics, enumerabilities, experimentalism, experimentalist, germinabilities, governmentalism, governmentalist, impersonalities, incrementalisms, incrementalists, intervalometers, maladministered, maladroitnesses, mensurabilities, reestablishment, remonstratively, semicrystalline, semitranslucent, symmetricalness, tatterdemalions, trihalomethanes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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