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  1. noun A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition.

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  • Aircraft spins come in different forms: by type—normal and inverted; by direction of rotation—right and left; by angle of incline of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft—steep (angle of in-cline greater than fifty degrees), shallow (angle of incline from fifty to thirty degrees), and flat (angle of incline less than thirty degrees); by nature of rotation—unrecoverable and recoverable. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
  • Both this and the previous paper have made it abundantly clear that, even in Europe, where genetic differentiation is very limited and populations are arrayed in a cline, it is possible to determine the rough geographical or ethnic origin of an unknown individual. —  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
  • The geographic position of an abrupt cline in an X chromosome marker, and autosomal clines centred on the same position, seem unaffected by the musculus Y introgression. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Both methods are based on assumptions of low mutation rates. association cline coalescent differetiation disequlibrium drift evolution fitness forward genetcis genome gwa haplotype homozygosity likelihood linkage maximum mutation natural netural neutral new phylogenetic population protein selection simulation study tree wide CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Protecting Cookies from Deletion, where member cline discusses that the problem of tracking not only is an issue of users deleting cookie's manually but the anti-spyware programs that delete them automatically. —  Search Engine Roundtable
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  1. From Greek klīnein, to lean; see klei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Middle English clinen, clynen, from Old French cliner = Provencal clinar = Old Italian clinare (usually in comp.: Italian inclinare = Old French encliner, later Middle English enclinen (of which clinen is rather a clipped form), modern English encline, incline, q. v.), from Latin clinare, lean, incline (in past participle clinatus and in comp. inclinare, etc.), = Greek κλίνειν, lean, slope, bend, incline, recline, decline, = Anglo-Saxon hlinian, English lean: see lean. Hence ult. (from L.) decline, encline, incline, recline, clivous, acclivous, acclivity, declivity, proclivity, etc., (from Greek) clinic, enclitic, proclitic, etc.
 

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