streamline

  1. Noun.  (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. Noun.  (meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
  4. Verb.  (transitive, by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To modernise.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.