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flowline

flowline

5.5
A line on a map showing the direction a liquid or material moves
  • noun
  • /ˈfloʊlaɪn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : línea de flujo
  • In the model, the flowline shows how the chemicals will travel through the system after being mixed.
  • generated flowlines
  • opacity along a flowline
  • length of a flowline

Examples

  • The engineer used a flowline to illustrate how the oil would move from the reservoir through the pipeline.

  • In addition, the number of the generated flowlines varies because the prevalence of the reversed flows during a cardiac cycle can also vary.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The above process is equally applied to all of the seed points, yielding one flowline at each seed point.

    Academic text (2016)
  • In the proposed method, the importance of the flowlines was decided based on their geometric features alone.

    Academic text (2016)
  • When the line integration is finally complete, the flowline is generated by a sequential connection of the seed point and its subsequent ones.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The proposed method can therefore produce length-extended flowlines.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The linear and angular entropies indicate the length and angle variations, respectively, along a flowline.

    Academic text (2016)
  • To calculate the shape similarity at each flowline point, its closest centerline point is searched for based on the Euclidean distance.

    Academic text (2016)
  • In addition, a flow-based directional tracing and an additional seeding method that contributed to a length-extended flowline construction are presented.

    Academic text (2016)
  • To visualize blood flow information, a strategy that generates the flowlines densely and instead shows the important ones opaquely and the others transparently is adopted here.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

blueline
vsflowline
  • Specialized
7.1

A drawn blue line on a map or drawing that shows a planned route

indicates where a fluid or material moves and its direction

Surface Forms

flowline singular
flowlines plural

Morphology

flowline = flow + line (transparent) = flow + line

Clear compound of 'flow' (movement) + 'line' (marked path), meaning a line showing the direction or path of movement.

Etymology

Flowline comes from flow ('movement of liquid or gas') and line ('a path or mark'), so a flowline on a map or diagram is simply a line that shows where and how something flows.