different between gradate vs cline

English

Etymology

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Verb

gradate (third-person singular simple present gradates, present participle gradating, simple past and past participle gradated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To change imperceptibly from one gradation of tone etc. to another.
2. (transitive) To arrange in order of grades.
3. (transitive, chemistry) To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration.

   to gradate a saline solution

Anagrams

• at grade, at-grade

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