Streamline

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Streamline \Stream"line`\, a.
     Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow
     that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a
     streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is
     designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about
     it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible;


     as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship; -- the
     current usuage prefers the term {streamlined}.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  streamline \stream"line\, v. t.
     1. to design or modify so as to present the least possible
        resistance to fluid flow; -- used mostly of vehicles, such
        as automobiles, airplanes, or ships.
        [PJC]
  
     2. [Fig.] to change so as to make more efficient; -- used
        especially of organizations, procedures, or methods. "The
        streamlined company became a formidable competitor."
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  streamline
       v : contour economically or efficiently

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "streamline":
     air line, axis, beeline, boil down, chord, diagonal, diameter,
     direct line, directrix, distill, edge, great-circle course,
     modernize, narrow, normal, oversimplify, perpendicular, purify,
     radius, radius vector, reduce, reduce to elements, refine,
     right line, secant, segment, shortcut, side, simplify, straight,
     straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway,
     strip down, tangent, transversal, update, vector