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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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clime
English
Etymology
From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek ????? (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from ????? (klín?, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kla?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
- Homophone: climb
Noun
clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)
- A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
- After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:
- My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
Where rougher climes a nobler race di?play,
- My ?oul turn from them, turn we to ?urvey
- Climate.
- A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
Anagrams
- melic
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