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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -al.
Adjective
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to beds or rest.
1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:‘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.’
- (physical chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°
Etymology 2
From cline + -al.
Adjective
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a cline.
1994, Anders P Moller, Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow, Oxford, published 2000, page 299:Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.
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Adjective
clinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural clinales)
- clinal