Meaning of TURBULENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'turbyûluns
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] unstable flow of a liquid or gas
- [n] a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
- [n] instability in the atmosphere
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TURBULENCE is a 10 letter word that starts with T. |
| | Synonyms: | | Sturm und Drang, turbulency, upheaval |
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| | See Also: | | agitation, bad weather, clear-air turbulence, crosscurrent, disorder, ferment, fermentation, inclemency, inclementness, physical phenomenon, rip, riptide, tide rip, unrest, violence | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Tur"bu*lence\, n. [L. turbulentia: cf. F.
turbulebce.]
The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state;
tumult; disorder; agitation. --Shak.
The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued.
--Southey.
Syn: Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness;
termagance; unruliness; insubordination; rioting.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | - The motion of water where local velocities fluctuate and the direction of flow changes abruptly and frequently at any particular location, resulting in disruption of laminar flow.
- Agitation of flowing water by cross currents and eddies, particularly small-scale agitation derived from boundary roughness.
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