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cline
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Etymology 1
Ancient Greek ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).
Noun
cline (plural clines)
- (systematics) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
- Any graduated continuum.
- 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
- This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …
- 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
Derived terms
- clinal
Related terms
- client
- climate
- climax
- clinic
- clivus
- lean
Etymology 2
From c(ircle) + line; compare circline.
Noun
cline (plural clines)
- (geometry, inversive geometry) A generalized circle.
- 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,
- Let ? be a fixed, arbitrary, point. Then circles (in the classical sense) through ? can be considered as lines. For convenience, such circles are called clines in this section. Two distinct clines cut in one point (ignoring ? and the two cyclic points); it can happen that ? is a double intersection point; in this case, one may say that the two clines are parallel, and that they meet at a point at infinity, which is ?.
- 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,
Synonyms
- (generalized circle): circline, generalized circle
Further reading
- cline at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- incel, incle
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clinal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kla?n?l/
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ????? (klín?, “bed”) +? -al.
Adjective
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to beds or rest.
- (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°
Etymology 2
cline +? -al
Adjective
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a cline.
Anagrams
- call in, call-in, callin', incall
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