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streamlined

streamlined adjective: designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines. Also the simple past and past participle of streamline.

Adjective

streamlined (comparative more streamlined, superlative most streamlined)

  1. Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.
    Synonyms:
    air-smoothed, sleek
  2. Having been made more simple and straight forward.
    • Commercial pilots would benefit from streamlined rules on flight time, duty and rest requirements in a proposal being announced Friday by federal regulators.2010 September 10, Paul Courson, “New rules proposed for pilot flight time and rest requirements”, in CNN
    • He boasted about how quickly the company had brought the 737 Max to market — and praised the Federal Aviation Administration’s “streamlined” certification process.2019 April 3, Chris Isidore, “Boeing boasted about streamlined approval for the 737 Max. Now it’s cleaning up the mess”, in CNN

Also used as

streamlined is also the simple past and past participle of streamline.

Examples of streamlined in a sentence

  • Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized.
  • The simple style of numbers and symbols on the face contributes to the modern, streamlined sporty appearance.
  • The selective algorithm excludes the redundant classifiers to construct a streamlined ensemble learning.

All 23 example sentences with streamlined

Synonyms of streamlined

Forms of streamlined

comparativemore streamlined
superlativemost streamlined

Origin of streamlined

From streamline + -ed.

Words formed from streamlined

Questions about streamlined

What does streamlined mean?
Streamlined means designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.
What part of speech is streamlined?
Streamlined is an adjective.

Words near streamlined in the dictionary

  1. streamlet
  2. streamlets
  3. streamlike
  4. streamlinable
  5. streamline
  6. streamlined
  7. streamliner
  8. streamliners
  9. streamlines
  10. streamling
  11. streamlings

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