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Streamline   Listen
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Streamline  adj.  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.






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"Streamline" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment we were out on the dome top. A sleek, rounded spread of glassite, with broad aluminite girders. There were cross ribs which gave us a footing, and occasionally projections—streamline fin-tips, the casings of the upper rudder shafts, and the upstanding stubby funnels into which ...
— Brigands of the Moon • Ray Cummings



Words linked to "Streamline" :   contour, streamliner



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