Rationalize vs Streamline - What's the difference?
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To make something rational or more rational.
To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
(mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.
(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.
To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
(by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
To modernise.