Streamline

Quick meaning: Streamline is a noun meaning (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.

Meaning

(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.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.

This structure organizes and streamlines theme development to create a solid ground for themers (theme developers) to further build and extend, much like in object-oriented programming.

The J's originally were streamlined after the style of the New Haven's 1400- class 4-6-4's and were considered by many to be a handsome locomotive. A program to gradually destreamline the class began in April 1947.

A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.

Word Forms

• streamlines
• streamlining
• streamlined

Antonyms for streamline

Common opposites include destreamline.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lighten, refine, optimization, pivot, align, modernise.

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