streamlining
Making more efficient
Streamlining is the process of making something more efficient by removing unnecessary elements or simplifying procedures: The company is streamlining its operations to cut costs.
The term comes from aerodynamics, where a streamlined shape reduces drag by allowing air or water to flow smoothly around it.
The metaphor extends to any effort to make systems faster, leaner, or less cumbersome: streamlining the approval process, streamlining government bureaucracy.
Maximizing efficiency or performance
- automationSelf-operating system design
- leanLacking fat; incline
- simplificationMaking something less complex
- systematizationCreating ordered structure
standardization · consolidation · integration · centralization · modernization · digitization · restructuring · kaizen
Movement of atmosphere
- slipstreamAerodynamic wake zone
- fuselageAircraft's central structure
- noseconeRocket's forward fairing
- wingletUpturned aircraft tip extension
fairing · spoiler · fin · laminar · turbulence · diffuser · hull · bodywork
Smooth, lustrous quality
- contourBounding line of shape
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
- curvesBends in a line
- polishSmooth by rubbing
minimalism · refinement · silhouette · form · profile · tapered · sculpted · modern
optimization
Maximizing efficiency or performance
- automationSelf-operating system design
- leanLacking fat; incline
- simplificationMaking something less complex
systematization · standardization · consolidation · integration · centralization · modernization · digitization · restructuring · kaizen · throughput
airflow
Movement of atmosphere
- slipstreamAerodynamic wake zone
- fuselageAircraft's central structure
- noseconeRocket's forward fairing
winglet · fairing · spoiler · fin · laminar · turbulence · diffuser · hull · bodywork · contour
sleekness
Smooth, lustrous quality
polish · minimalism · refinement · silhouette · form · profile · tapered · sculpted · modern · uncluttered
- optimizationoptimization, caching, optimum, indexing, prefetching
- swimmingswimming, swimmer, swimmers, swim team, swim teams
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
- declutteringdecluttering, organizing, donating, purging, discarding
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- efficiencyoptimization, efficient, effective, optimize, productivity
streamliningcomplicating
Making less straightforward
overcomplicating · complexifying · convoluting · bureaucratizing · elaborating
streamlininghindering
Creating obstacles to progress
impeding · obstructing · slowing down · bogging down · hampering
stream, streams, mainstream, streamer, streamlined, streamline, streamers, upstream, streamlet