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seamless

adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,900 of 15,258leans written

Seamless means so smoothly joined that no break can be seen. A seamless transition, seamless integration, seamless service.

It is now the most overworked word in business writing, where every handover is promised as seamless. The literal sense is real and technical: seamless pipe is drawn from a single billet with no welded join.

Definitions of seamless

  1. 1adjectiveseamlessSo smoothly joined that no break can be seen.B2+

    “The dancers' movements flowed together in one seamless performance.”

seamless is a quality.

Where it comes from

Old English seamleas is seam plus -less.

  1. Old English

    *sēamlēas

  2. Middle English

    seemles

  3. English, today

    seamless

From Middle English seemles, semeles, semles, Old English sēamlēas, equivalent to seam + -less. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål sømløs (“seamless”), Swedish sömlös (“seamless”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

seamless in the wild

  • The effect is usually polished by careful editing to establish a seamless cut and optimal moment of change.

    Substitution splice

  • The 30-degree rule advises that for consecutive shots to appear seamless and continuous in time, the camera position must vary at least 30 degrees from its previous position.

    Jump cut

  • Circular knitting or knitting in the round is a form of knitting that creates a seamless tube.

    Circular knitting

  • The Kitchener stitch is a common method of grafting and creates a "seamless" join that looks like the rest of the knit fabric..

    Grafting (knitting)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • seam