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Brownian motion

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brownian movementnounSynonym of Brownian motion.
pedesisnoun(archaic) Brownian motion
mobilitynounThe ability to move; capacity for movement.
diffusionnounThe act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
microfluidnoun(physics) Any fluid in which the local motion of contained particles affects the behaviour of the fluid as a whole
pseudochemotaxisnounApparent chemotaxis due to random movement such as Brownian motion
brownian noisenounAlternative form of Brown noise. [Synonym of red noise.]
molecular dynamicsnoun(physics) The study of the physical movement of collections of atoms and molecules as they interact
brownian ratchetnoun(physics) An apparent perpetual motion machine, the subject of a thought experiment, that would consist of a tiny paddle wheel and a ratchet, and might seem to be able to extract useful work from random fluctuations (heat) in a system at thermal equilibrium, in violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
particle mechanicsnoun(physics) The study of the motion of individual particles.
bloch oscillationnoun(physics) In solid-state physics, the oscillation of a particle (e.g. an electron) confined in a periodic potential when a constant force is acting on it.
autophoresisnoun(physics) The spontaneous movement of particles in a suspension caused by nonlinear interplay between surface osmotic flows and solute advection
yang-baxter equationnoun(physics) A consistency equation first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics, based on the idea that, in some scattering situations, particles may preserve their momentum while changing their quantum internal states.
magnetophoresisnoun(physics) Motion induced by a magnetic field on a particle of magnetic or magnetizable material (such as a hemoglobin-bearing red blood cell) in a fluid.
matterwavenoun(physics) A travelling particle considered in terms of its wavelike properties
kinematicsnoun(physics) The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
turbulent flownoun(physics) A form of irregular viscous flow in which the velocity and pressure of the fluid fluctuates at random in both time and space,
undulationnounA wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
momentumnoun(physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
subdiffusionnoun(physics) The tendency of particles in a fluid not to diffuse due to random trapping

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