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-cline

-cline suffix: a specified form of slope or gradation.

Suffix

-cline

  1. A specified form of slope or gradation.

Origin of -cline

Back-formation from -clinal.

Questions about -cline

What does -cline mean?
-cline means a specified form of slope or gradation.
What part of speech is -cline?
-cline is a suffix.

Words near -cline in the dictionary

  1. -clastic
  2. -cleisis
  3. -clidine
  4. -clidinium
  5. -clinal
  6. -cline
  7. -clinic
  8. -clofenac
  9. -cnemic
  10. -co
  11. -co-

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