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Streamlined vs Streamline - What's the difference?

streamlined | streamline |

As verbs the difference between streamlined and streamline

is that streamlined is past tense of streamline while streamline is to design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.

As an adjective streamlined

is designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.

As a noun streamline is

a line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.

streamlined

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.
  • Having been made more simple and straight forward.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (streamline)

    • Anagrams

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    streamline

    English

    (wikipedia streamline)

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • (meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.

    • See also

    * streakline * pathline

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * streamliner

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