2. [Fig.] to change so as to make more efficient; -- used especially of organizations, procedures, or methods. ``The streamlined company became a formidable competitor.'' [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Streamline — may refer to:*Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, in fluid flows. See also: Drag (physics) **Streamliner, any vehicle shaped to be less resistant to air **See also: Process optimization, Optimization (computer science), Rightsizing,… … Wikipedia
streamline — stream‧line [ˈstriːmlaɪn] verb [transitive] to make something such as a business or organization work more simply and effectively: • Much has been done to streamline the production process. • The organization has been streamlined to reduce… … Financial and business terms
Streamline — Stream line , a. Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
streamline — index simplify (make easier) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
streamline — ► VERB 1) design or form in a way that presents very little resistance to a flow of air or water. 2) make (an organization or system) more efficient by employing faster or simpler working methods … English terms dictionary
streamline — [strēm′līn΄] n. 1. the path, or a section of the path, of a fluid moving past a solid object 2. a contour with reference to its resistance, as to air vt. streamlined, streamlining to make streamlined adj. STREAMLINED … English World dictionary
Streamline — Der Begriff Streamline bezeichnet im Englischen als Substantiv Stromlinie eine Grafiksoftware, siehe Adobe Streamline eine Zweigrichtung des Kunststils Art Déco, siehe Streamline Moderne eine amerikanische Filmfirma, siehe Streamline Pictures… … Deutsch Wikipedia
streamline — {{11}}streamline (n.) 1868, line drawn from point to point, so that its direction is everywhere that of the motion of the fluid [Lamb, Hydrodynamics, 1906], from STREAM (Cf. stream) (n.) + LINE (Cf. line) (n.). The adjective is attested from 1898 … Etymology dictionary
streamline — [[t]stri͟ːmlaɪn[/t]] streamlines, streamlining, streamlined VERB To streamline an organization or process means to make it more efficient by removing unnecessary parts of it. [V n] They re making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome… … English dictionary
streamline — UK [ˈstriːmˌlaɪn] / US [ˈstrɪmˌlaɪn] verb [transitive] Word forms streamline : present tense I/you/we/they streamline he/she/it streamlines present participle streamlining past tense streamlined past participle streamlined 1) to improve a… … English dictionary
