different between cline vs clinic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

Ancient Greek ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).

Noun

cline (plural clines)

1. (systematics) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
2. 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, …

Derived terms

• clinal

Related terms

• client
• climate
• climax
• clinic
• clivus
• lean

Etymology 2

From c(ircle) + line; compare circline.

Noun

cline (plural clines)

1. (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 ?.

Synonyms

• (generalized circle): circline, generalized circle

Further reading

• cline at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• incel, incle

English

Alternative forms

• clinique (archaic)

Etymology

From French clinique, from Late Latin cl?nicus (“a bed-ridden person, one baptized on a sick-bed, a physician”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kl?nikós, “pertaining to a bed”), from ?????? (kl??n?, “bed”), from ?????? (kl??n?, “to lean, incline”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?n'?k, IPA^(key): /?kl?n?k/
• Rhymes: -?n?k

Noun

clinic (plural clinics)

1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
4. A group practice of several physicians.
5. A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
6. A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
7. (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
8. (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
9. (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.

Derived terms

Related terms

• clinal
• cline

Translations

Further reading

• clinic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• clinic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• clinic at OneLook Dictionary Search

Interlingua

Adjective

clinic (not comparable)

1. clinical

Related terms

• clinica

Romanian

Etymology

From French clinique.

Adjective

clinic m or n (feminine singular clinic?, masculine plural clinici, feminine and neuter plural clinice)

1. clinical

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