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IPA transcription: ['tɚbjələns]
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Noun
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a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
“the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence”
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unstable flow of a liquid or gas
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instability in the atmosphere
Usage examples
- Despite having no viscosity, turbulence is possible in a superfluid.
- The fast flow rate causes turbulence which keeps the water well oxygenated.
- Thus, we are able to identify turbulence through the statistics of those fluctuations.
- A flash of light is seen, accompanied by severe turbulence.
- The more turbulence, the better the degree of dispersion.
- Wingtip vortices form the primary component of wake turbulence.
- A period of political turbulence the coup.
- The altitude of the turbulence should be included using three-digit groups.
- However, direct numerical simulation is a useful tool in fundamental research in turbulence.