Associations to the word «Streamline»

Wiktionary

STREAMLINE, 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.
STREAMLINE, noun. (meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
STREAMLINE, verb. (transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
STREAMLINE, verb. (transitive) (by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
STREAMLINE, verb. (transitive) To modernise.

Dictionary definition

STREAMLINE, verb. Contour economically or efficiently.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope