Definitions
A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.
Word origin
From 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.
Used in a sentence
“This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Gradual biological range”5 letters
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