See Also: cline(dictionary)
cline(dictionary)
cline(medicine)
Cline, Patsy(dictionary)
Cline, Patsy(encyclopedia)
stern(4)(dictionary)
stern(1)(dictionary)
stern(3)(dictionary)
Stern(medicine)
Stern(encyclopedia)

stern-chaser (iou) and cline (medicine)


stern-chaser (iou)



stern-chaser noun. E19.
[from STERN noun2 + CHASER noun1.]
Nautical.
Hist. An aft-firing gun mounted in the stern of a ship. E19.
The last vessel in a race. rare. L19.

cline (medicine)


cline


A systematic relation between location and the frequencies of alleles; lines connecting points of equal frequency are termed isoclines, and the direction of the cline at any point is at right angles to an isocline.

Origin: G. Klino, to slope