streamline
- a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- the path of a particle that is flowing steadily and without turbulence in a fluid past an object.
- to make streamlined.
- to alter in order to make more efficient or simple.
- streamlined.
Origin of streamline
Related Words for streamlining
distribute, place, plan, file, conduct, establish, assign, fashion, carve, frame, construct, embody, produce, build, forge, mold, facilitate, reduce, clarify, shortenExamples from the Web for streamlining
Contemporary Examples of streamlining
If the answer is no, relaxing them is acceptable, for the common good of rationalizing and streamlining airport security.
Bulk purchases of supplies, and streamlining bureaucratic overhead, can save real money.
For an embrace of the Simpson-Bowles commission plan for debt reduction and a streamlining of the U.S. tax codes?
Obama’s Nightmare: Reelected in 2012 but Republicans Take the SenateThomas E. Cronin
December 29, 2011
Historical Examples of streamlining
Streamlining, in the vacuum, of course wasn't necessary, either.
The Planet StrappersRaymond Zinke Gallun
It made this tremendous speed by streamlining and through sheer power.
The Black Star PassesJohn W Campbell
This streamlining of undergarments helped the lady of fashion to maintain a desirably svelte figure.
Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United StatesClaudia B. Kidwell
streamline
- a contour on a body that offers the minimum resistance to a gas or liquid flowing around it
- an imaginary line in a fluid such that the tangent at any point indicates the direction of the velocity of a particle of the fluid at that point
- to make streamlined
Word Origin and History for streamlining
streamline
1868, "line drawn from point to point, so that its direction is everywhere that of the motion of the fluid" [Lamb, "Hydrodynamics," 1906], from stream (n.) + line (n.). The adjective is attested from 1898, "free from turbulence," 1907 in sense of "shaped so that the flow around it is smooth."
streamline
1913, "give a streamline form to," from streamline (n.). From 1936 in the extended sense of "simplify and organize." Related: Streamlined; streamlining.
streamline
- To construct or reconstruct an object to reduce the amount of drag it undergoes as it moves through a fluid, especially air or water.