💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Vorticity"
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| Word | Definition |
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| whirlwindnoun | A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. |
| eddynoun | A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. |
| flurrynoun | A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow. |
| vortexnoun | A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. |
| maelstromnoun | (figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation. |
| whirlpoolnoun | A swirling body of water. |
| swirlnoun | A whirling eddy. |
| whirlnoun | An act of whirling. |
| wavenoun | A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation. |
| vortensitynoun | (physics) The ratio of vorticity to density of a rotating fluid. |
| potential vorticitynoun | (meteorology) a quantity which is proportional to the product of vorticity and stratification. When applied to air parcels, aids the understanding of cyclogenesis |
| ferrotoroidicitynoun | (physics) The presence in a material of an ordered arrangement of magnetic vortices |
| vortexonnoun | (physics) A toroidal vortex in a fluid |
| velocity potentialnoun | (fluid mechanics, of an inviscid irrotational flow) A scalar potential function relating to the flow’s velocity distribution, defined as ϕ=∇⃑V. |
| gyroviscositynoun | (physics) gyroscopic viscosity |
| vortex theorynoun | The vortex theory of the atom: a theory by Lord Kelvin, to explain why there are relatively few types of atom, but a huge number of each type. |
| 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, |
| velocitynoun | (physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component. |
| helicitynoun | (physics, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist or link and coil around one another. |
| vectorpotentialnoun | (physics) A vector function whose curl is equal to the magnetic induction |
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