/klaɪn/
OriginFrom 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.
- A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.
“2000 Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman: Applying Evolutionary Archaeology →ISBN
[A cline is a] character gradient, wherein a character such as length increases or decreases gradually and continuousl”
“2002 The Future of Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recent studies have shown that invaders can rapidly adapt to the new environments in which they find themselves. Huey et a”
“2012 Donald W. Linzey. Vertebrate biology →ISBN
Subspecies of the song sparrow form a cline in body size, plumage coloration, and song characteristics. There is a dramatic difference in appearance bet”
- Any graduated continuum.
“2004 Language typology: a functional perspective →ISBN
The cline of instantiation is a dimension that organizes systems of all kinds — physical systems like that of meteorology, biological systems, so”
“This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …”
- 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.”
“2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Pa”
Formsclines(plural)