clinal — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Pertaining to beds or rest.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   ‘Strange,’ Enderby said. ‘Here we both are, in a clinal situation so to speak, a bed context I mean, the Greek word means to lean or repose I suppose, hence bed, hence clinic by the way, and this has nothing to do with my feverish imaginings.’

2. Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • physical

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a cline.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.