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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turbulence \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Late Latin turbulentia "trouble, disquiet," from Latin turbulentus (see turbulent). In reference to atmospheric eddies that affect airplanes, by 1918. Related: Turbulency.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance. 2 (context uncountable English) Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest. 3 (context uncountable English) Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft. 4 An instance or type of such state or disturbance.
WordNet
n. unstable flow of a liquid or gas [syn: turbulency]
instability in the atmosphere
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: upheaval, Sturm und Drang]
Wikipedia
In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. In contrast to laminar flow, turbulence is associated with high Reynolds numbers, where inertial forces dominate viscous forces.
In turbulent flow, unsteady vortices appear on many scales and interact with each other. Drag due to boundary layer skin friction increases. The structure and location of boundary layer separation often changes, sometimes resulting in a reduction of overall drag. This effect is exploited by aerodynamic spoilers on cars and aircraft.
Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena such as surf, clouds and smoke. Most flows occurring in nature and in engineering applications are turbulent. However, turbulence has long resisted physical analysis. Richard Feynman has described it as the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
Turbulence is a 1997 American disaster crime thriller film directed by Robert Butler. It stars Ray Liotta and Lauren Holly and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Turbulence is a children's novel by Jan Mark, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
Turbulence is a phenomenon involving the irregular motion of air and fluids, studied in fluid dynamics.
Turbulence may also refer to:
Turbulence is the third studio album by Yes guitarist Steve Howe, released in 1991 through Relativity Records. It is Howe's first solo release since 1979, with his band including former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and former Ultravox keyboardist Billy Currie. The album is composed of guitar-based instrumentals, showcasing different genres that have influenced Howe. "Sensitive Chaos" contains a melody which would also be used in "I Would Have Waited Forever", the opening track to Yes' 1991 album Union.
Turbulence is a 2000 drama film directed by Ruy Guerra. A co-production between Brazil, Cuba, and Portugal, it was shot in Rio de Janeiro and Havana.
Turbulence is the second and last album by rock band Aviator.
A reference to Turbulence and Turmoil in an XKeyscore slide.
Turbulence is a United States National Security Agency (NSA) information-technology project started c. 2005. It was developed in small, inexpensive "test" pieces rather than one grand plan like its failed predecessor, the Trailblazer Project. It also includes offensive cyberwarfare capabilities, like injecting malware into remote computers. The U.S. Congress criticized the project in 2007 for having similar bureaucratic problems as the Trailblazer Project.
Turbulence (born Sheldon Campbell on 11 January 1980) is a Jamaican reggae artist. He is a self-proclaimed member of the Rastafari movement. He was discovered in 1999 by Philip "Fatis" Burrell. He has released a number of albums including I Believe, United, Notorious - The Album, Songs of Solomon, Triumphantly, Join Us and Hail The King and was featured in an episode of the BBC documentary series Storyville. He is also known for his song "Blood dem out" which was featured on a highly profiled freestyle ski movie called "Show and Prove".
"Turbulence" is a song by Laidback Luke and Steve Aoki, featuring vocals from American rapper and music producer Lil Jon. It was released on 14 May 2011 as a Digital download in the United Kingdom and was released on 17 July 2011 as an EP. The radio edit version of the song was included on the bonus track version of Steve Aoki's debut album Wonderland. The song is also the current official goal song for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Turbulence is a 2011 British film directed by Michael B. Clifford.
It tells the story of a struggling pub and a local rock band. The film was shot in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham.
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.