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語源 1

From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) +‎ -al.

形容詞

clinal (not comparable)

1. 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.’

2. (physical chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°

語源 2

cline +‎ -al

形容詞

clinal (not comparable)

1. 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.

派生語

アナグラム

• call in, call-in, callin', incall