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ˈin-line, n. and a.
Also inline.
[f. phr. in line (cf. in prep. 18).]
A. n. Printing. (See quot. 1958.) Also attrib. or as adj. orig. U.S.
1923Amer. Type Founders Co. Specimen Bk., Cheltenham Inline. 1931Bastien & Freshwater Printing Types 133 Erbar Inline... The inline..is a masterpiece of balance and design. 1953Berry & Johnson Encycl. Type Faces 263 Inline fat face capitals and figures. The white line occupies only a small portion of the main strokes. 1958Ibid. (ed. 2) 269 Outline or open letters should be those in which the whole interior of the stroke has been removed, shaded letters those which have a white line running down one side or the other, and Inline letters those with a white line running through the centre of the strokes. 1973Publishers Weekly 1 Jan. 47/1 The third release is Neuland [type-face], which comes in a standard, two outlines, an inline and a black.
B. adj.
1. (Composed of parts) arranged or situated in a line.
a. Applied to internal-combustion engines in which the cylinders are arranged in one or more rows (in contrast to radial engines); usu. restricted to those in which the cylinders are vertical (so excluding V engines). Also ellipt. or as n.
1929V. W. Pagé Mod. Aviation Engines II. xlvi. 1886 Engines of the in-line type and both static and rotary radial two cycle forms continue to receive attention. 1934Discovery Dec. 353/1 The tendency..is to develop..the large in-line engine.. composed of four banks of cylinders forming an H, and the corresponding radial engines with two circles of cylinders one immediately behind the other. 1949I. Katz Princ. Aircraft Propulsion Machinery i. 13 The principal cylinder arrangements are: 1. Inline—Single crankshaft, one cylinder bank, one piston per crankpin. 2. Inline-inverted—Inverted version of inline to ease problems of installation and facilitate larger propeller swing in small aircraft. 3. Opposed-cylinder... 4. V... 5. V-inverted [etc.]. 1958R. D. Blacker Basic Aeronaut. Sci. ix. 145/2 In-line engines consist of one or more lines of cylinders placed one behind the other. The rows of cylinders may be arranged in an ‘X’ or ‘V’, as well as in a single line. 1961J. Mackerle Air-Cooled Motor Engines x. 200 Twin cylinder engines are arranged in in-line parallel twins, V engines or horizontally opposed. 1969K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 22 Wright Flyer III, ca. summer/autumn 1905. Engine: one 20 h.p. (approx.) Wright 4-cylinder water-cooled in-line. 1970Commercial Motor 25 Sept. 56/2 A 370 bhp version of the Cummins 335/350 bhp six-cylinder in-line was in production. 1971P. J. McMahon Aircraft Propulsion xi. 312 By the early 1930s..the inline vee..was beginning to offer strong opposition. Ibid., Even though the radial made a comeback..the inline always had this fundamental advantage of a lower frontal area.
b. gen.
1961Engineering 24 Nov. 685/1 The plant required for phosphating usually consists of a series of in-line tanks. 1968Sci. Jrnl. Oct. 29/3 Aerial elevation and azimuth are..shown together with range on in-line digital indicators on the control unit.
2. Taking place or situated as an integral part of a continuous, usu. linear, sequence of operations or machines (as in an assembly line); involving or employing such a sequence.
1958S. E. Rusinoff Automation in Pract. xi. 167 In straight in-line indexing, the work piece moves intermittently from one machining station to the next in a straight line. 1967Electronics 6 Mar. 47/1 Production volume of monolithic integrated circuits has reached a point where automatic in-line testing and sorting will pay off in reliability. 1967Times Rev. Industry May 60/2 The accommodation is designed for all the latest production techniques, including automatic inspection, bulk palletisation, in-line decoration and mechanical packing. 1968Boothroyd & Redford Mechanized Assembly ii. 8 An in-line assembly machine is one where the work carriers are transferred in line along a straight slideway. 1971Engineering Apr. 73/1 From the point where the operator selects the proper conductor wires, a portable electro⁓hydraulic in-line jointing machine..completes the cycle in under 18 seconds. 1971Physics Bull. July 401/2 A typical problem in a steel mill is the in-line measurement of the roundness and diameter of steel rods, which are both hot and vibrating as a consequence of the production process.
3. Computers.
a. Applied to a subroutine that is written, in full, directly into a program wherever it occurs. Now rare.
1958Gotlieb & Hume High-Speed Data Processing vi. 107 A subroutine may be incorporated into a routine in either of two ways. If the instruction sequence is of reasonable length it may be inserted directly into place in the routine of which it forms part... A subroutine used in this manner is called an open or in-line subroutine. If a subroutine consists of a long sequence of instructions, or if it must be used in several different places in the routine, it is desirable to store it separately..and enter it by means of a jump.
b. Applied to data processing in which input data are processed in the order in which they are produced or obtained, without being first sorted into batches.
1959J. Jeenel Programming for Digital Computers ix. 419 Random-access storage would permit input data to be processed efficiently in the chronological order in which they arise. This type of processing, which lends itself particularly well to certain commercial applications, is frequently referred to as ‘in-line processing’, as opposed to ‘batch processing’. 1964T. W. McRae Impact of Computers on Accounting i. 17 An in-line processing system updates all of the records on the same run, and the input data do not require sorting.
c. = on-line a. 1.
1959E. M. McCormick Digital Computer Primer ix. 135 The input–output equipment of a computer is sometimes referred to as peripheral. If operated and controlled by the computer itself, it is in-line or on-line; if operated independently of the computer, it is off-line. 1971N. Chapin Computers viii. 152 On-line peripheral equipment (or in-line, as it is sometimes called) operates under the direction of the control unit of the automatic computer.
▸ in-line skate n. a type of roller skate with wheels mounted in a single line rather than in pairs; cf. Rollerblade n.
1987Minneapolis Star & Tribune 22 June 1 c/1 (heading) For fun or fitness, in-line skates are putting many recreational users in the fast lane. 2004P. Raeburn Acquainted with Night Prol. 3 He skated not on in-line skates, like the ones Alex had, but on old-fashioned four-wheel skates, or ‘quads’.
▸ in-line skating n. the sport or pastime of roller-skating on in-line skates.
1987Minneapolis-St. Paul CityBusiness (Nexis) 2 Dec. 1 Sundet says *in-line skating is here to stay. 2003Independent on Sunday 2 Nov. (TimeOff section) 11/6 A lot of my best youngsters have come from a background of in-line skating or BMXing.
▸ in-line skater n. a person who participates in in-line skating.
1990San Francisco Chron. 29 Jan. e13/4 (caption) Borrowing from ice hockey, an *in-line skater pushes a puck down JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. 2003Star (Malaysia) 10 Sept. (Star Two) 27/3 The three in-line skaters met through their sport and have a ‘crew’ of 11 friends.
▸ Computing. In desktop publishing and hypertext documents: designating an image, etc., that is linked to or embedded in a piece of text; spec. (a) (in early hypertext documents) one that is displayed within a line of text, rather than in a separate area of the page; (b) one that is loaded automatically when the relevant hypertext document is viewed.
1988Re: FullWrite on Shelves in comp.sys.mac (Usenet newsgroup) 17 May You ‘draw’ the text you want, then cut and paste it into the document as an inline graphic. Unfortunately, the margin for the inline graphic is too big and blows up the corresp. lines. 1990MacUser (Nexis) 9 Sept. 46 One of my favorite improvements is the Inline graphics feature, which lets you anchor a graphic to a specific piece of text. 1996L. Lemay Teach Yourself Web Publishing ix. 239 The previous exercise showed how to put an inline image on a page on its own separate line, with text above or below the image. 2003Internet Mag. (Nexis) 1 Feb. 70 In the sales page, Rob uses an unusual inline frame configuration (using HTML's tag) in order to display more detailed pictures of the various toy structures when visitors click on a thumbnail image. |