Cline (linguistics)
WordNet

noun


(1)   American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
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Noun



  1. A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
  2. Any graduated continuum.
    • 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
      This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation cline from anaphora to agreement, …
 
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