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eddy currents

n. (eddy current English)

Usage examples of "eddy currents".

In the distance he could see other Qanska settling down to sleep: Protectors and their Nurturer mates, floating and twisting together in the eddy currents.

Instead of a mad rush of air in or out of the building, there'd be only eddy currents outside of the inner chamber.

Yet here and there are immense reservoirs of frozen ice eternally trapped, for they exist at dead ends, or are slow, spinning, grinding, solid eddy currents forever caught in the grasp of mountains cupped to either side.

They lit up, superheated by the eddy currents, their shields overpowered in seconds, armor heated to cherry-red and then white-hot before the occupants could take any evasive action or retreat.

You have dealt with our caskets and you know what eddy currents can do.

The resulting eddy currents induced in the ship were continually slowing it down, braking it once every revolution.

When the tide turned, the harbor's strong eddy currents would make his landing an impossible nightmare.