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streamlining

streamlining is the present participle and gerund of streamline.

Meaning of streamline

Verb

streamline (third-person singular simple present streamlines, present participle streamlining, simple past and past participle streamlined)

  1. (transitive) To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
    • The J's originally were streamlined after the style of the New Haven's 1400- class 4-6-4's and were considered by many to be a handsome locomotive. A program to gradually destreamline the class began in April 1947.1969, Trains
  2. (broadly, transitive) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
    • The subcommittee concludes FDA should become less involved in the early stages of clinical research by streamlining and uncumbering its regulations governing them.1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology, The Food and Drug Administration's Process for Approving New Drugs, page...
  3. (transitive) To modernize.

See all 5 meanings of streamline

Noun

streamlining (countable and uncountable, plural streamlinings)

  1. The process by which something is streamlined.

Forms of streamlining

pluralstreamlinings

Words formed from streamlining

Questions about streamlining

What does streamlining mean?
Streamlining means the process by which something is streamlined.
What is streamlining the present participle and gerund of?
Streamlining is the present participle and gerund of streamline.
What part of speech is streamlining?
Streamlining is a noun.
What is the plural of streamlining?
The plural of streamlining is streamlinings.

Words near streamlining in the dictionary

  1. streamliner
  2. streamliners
  3. streamlines
  4. streamling
  5. streamlings
  6. streamlining
  7. streamlinings
  8. streamplot
  9. streamplots
  10. streamribbon
  11. streamribbons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: streamlining (page history and authors); streamline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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