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cline

noun
/klaɪn/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”). Introduced by English evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley in 1938 after British mycologist John Ramsbottom suggested the term.

  1. derived from κλῑ́νω — “to lean, incline”

Definitions

  1. A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.

  2. Any graduated continuum.

    • This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …

  3. A generalized circle.

    • Let C₁ and C₂ be two nonintersecting clines. Prove that there is a unique pair of points that are simultaneously symmetric to both C₁ and C₂.
    • To visualize Möbius transformations, it is helpful to focus on fixed points and, in the case of two fixed points, on two families of clines with respect to these points.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

chronocline, clinal, morphocline, redoxcline

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cline. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA