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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The motion of a fluid having local velocities and pressures that fluctuate randomly.
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- noun physics A form of
irregular viscous flow in which thevelocity andpressure of thefluid fluctuates atrandom in bothtime andspace ,
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- noun flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically
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