A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)

Usage examples of turbulence.

As you said, Hage Borat, prime-field turbulence is exceedingly fundamental.

Dreadnought took them as far as Munueyn, a Ruined City fallen amongst the dark, thick gases of the lower atmosphere where slow coils of turbulence roiled past like the heavy, lascivious licks of an almighty planetary tongue, a place all spires and spindles, near-deserted, long unfashionable, a one-time Storm-Centre now too far from anything to be of much interest to anybody, a place that might have garnered kudos for itself had it been near a war zone, but could hope for almost none at all because it was within one.

Fragments of marcasite, eggshell thin and the color of burnished gold, fluttered up in the turbulence.

They feed all these numbers into a Cray, and the animal pounds away, megaflops, on a simulation that knows everything about adiabatic cooling, turbulence, vapor pressures, topography, solar radiation.

The flight to Phan Rang was uneventful except for the turbulence the old C-123 seemed to go out of its way to find.

The strength of the sun was turned against itself, so that all these activities, flares, prominences, and sunspots, were defeated, and turbulence in the energy flow was deflected poleward, away from the plane of the ecliptic, where human civilization was gathered.

I suppose there was more turbulence and what would be called rowdyism in my day than now.

How, if not wisdom and authority, but turbulence and low vice are to exalt to senatorships miscreants reeking with the odors and pollution of the hell, the prize-ring, the brothel, and the stock-exchange, where gambling is legalized and rascality is laudable?

No atom of this turbulence fulfils A vague and unnecessitated task, Or acts but as it must and ought to act.

Routes into it while avoiding magnetic turbulence, and most importantly, the accretion disk.

Far beyond Jupiter and its moons, beyond the magnetopause, Mahnmut could sense the bow shock turbulence crashing like great white waves on a hidden reef, could hear the upstream Langmuir waves singing in the magnetic darkness past that reef, and could pick out the ion acoustic waves crackling after their long voyage uphill from the sun.

The dam shook with turbulence and disorder in the penstocks and turbines that were its heart.

This gentle radiant heat creates a mild, slow turbulence that breaks the solid stratus into thousands of leopard-spots, or with the aid of a little wind, perhaps into long billows and parallel rolls.

In that region, he knew, the turbulence of the Air, lashed by the neutrino storm from the Core, was such that its superfluid properties had broken down.

The thin but boiling thermosphere of the planet added an occasional pocket of turbulence.