Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In igneous rocks, one of a number of streaks or bands of different color, or parallel arrangement of crystals, which indicate the direction of differential flow or planes of movement along which the molten magma spread or flowed during its eruption just before its solidification. See
fluidal structure .
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Examples
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Wellstream makes equipment like flexible risers and so-called flow-line products that help gather oil pumped from deep under the sea and send it to shore.
GE Buys Wellstream For $1.3 Billion Associated Press 2010
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This transition to flow-line production requires - as to lighting engineering - that the illumination in such room is determined by the work to be done most frequently.
10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991
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In manufacturing there is considerable further scope to reduce costs by concentrating skills and increasing productivity by adopting what I would call a flow-line production philosophy based on viewing manufacturing as a total system rather than as a disjointed collection of individual processes.
The Marriage of Art and Technology in a Craft-Based Industry 1985
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By constructing there a dam 700 feet long and 65 feet high a reservoir with a water surface of 2.8 square miles would be afforded, the flow-line elevation being 280 feet above tide.
The Passaic Flood of 1903 Marshall Ora Leighton 1916
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Major infrastructure projects were completed including the construction and commissioning of the Moqueta to Costayaco flow-line with first short-term test production commencing in June, and the connection of the Costayaco field into
unknown title 2011
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The completion of the Moqueta to Costayaco flow-line and initiation of production was a major achievement.
unknown title 2011
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North Sea is persisting after crude escaped from a second flow-line hole.
unknown title 2011
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Wellstream makes equipment like flexible risers and so-called flow-line products that help gather oil pumped from deep under the sea and send it to shore.
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Wellstream makes equipment like flexible risers and so-called flow-line products that help gather oil pumped from deep under the sea and send it to shore.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Contractors report that Eni is going ahead with offshore flow-line installation, he said.
Forbes.com: News 2009
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