cline
noun/klaɪn/
/klaɪn/
- a series of similar items in which each is almost the same as the ones next to it, but the last is very different from the first synonym continuum
- Scores are categorized as points along a cline from negative to positive.
Word Origin1930s: from Greek klinein ‘to slope’.Definitions on the go
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