Noun
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.
Translations
line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid
- Dutch: stroomlijn (nl)
- Finnish: virtaviiva
- French: ligne de courant (fr) f
- Macedonian: струјница f (strujnica)
- Portuguese: linha de corrente f
- Russian: направле́ние тече́ния n (napravlénije tečénija), ли́ния обтека́ния f (línija obtekánija), ли́ния пото́ка f (línija potóka), ли́ния тече́ния f (línija tečénija), ли́ния то́ка (línija tóka)
- Spanish: línea de corriente f
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meteorology: line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of the wind
- Dutch: stroomlijn (nl)
- Finnish: virtaviiva
- Macedonian: струјница f (strujnica)
- Russian: ли́ния обтека́ния f (línija obtekánija), ли́ния возду́шного пото́ка f (línija vozdúšnovo potóka)
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Verb
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.
Translations
to design an object so as to offer least resistance to its flow through a fluid
- Finnish: virtaviivaistaa
- Georgian: გარსშემოდენილი (garsšemodenili), გარსედინი (garsedini)
- Italian: velocizzare (it)
- Russian: придава́ть обтека́емую фо́рму (pridavátʹ obtekájemuju fórmu)
- Yiddish: אַרומפֿלייצן (arumfleytsn)
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to simplify a process
- Azerbaijani: səmərələşdirmək, effektivləşdirmək
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精簡/精简 (zh) (jīngjiǎn)
- Finnish: tehostaa (fi), keventää (fi), sujuvoittaa (fi)
- French: rationaliser (fr)
- Italian: razionalizzare, snellire (it)
- Macedonian: рационализи́ра (racionalizíra)
- Portuguese: simplificar (pt), racionalizar (pt), otimizar (pt)
- Russian: рационализи́ровать (ru) (racionalizírovatʹ), ускоря́ть (ru) (uskorjátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: racionalizirati (sh), optimizirati
- Spanish: agilizar (es), racionalizar (es), simplificar (es)
- Swedish: rationalisera (sv)
- Yiddish: עפֿעקטיווירן (efektivirn), פֿאַרפּשוטערן (farposhetern)
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