trend

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 21.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

noun An inclination in a particular direction.
Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.
noun A tendency.
There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
noun A fad or fashion style.
Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.
noun An innovation, or a development of innovations.
New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.
noun A general development over distance.
The trend of the boundary goes around the mountains.
noun A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points; the shift over time represented by such a curve on a graph.
noun The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
noun The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.