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eddy Значение & определение

0 If water, wind, smoke, etc. eddies, it moves fast in a circle:
- The water eddied around in a whirlpool.
- He joined the flood of students eddying toward the second-floor lockers.
- She watched the small groups of protesters eddy across the courtyard.
- He is adept at placing Einstein in the stream of ideas and theories that eddied about in the intellectual currents of the day.
- But what is all this stuff that eddies in your head all the time?
1 a fast, circular movement of water, wind, smoke, etc.:
- The bend in the river had caused an eddy of fast swirling water.
- She was caught up in an eddy of social engagements.
- The swirling eddy of privacy concerns will be taken up by both House and Senate Commerce committees in the coming months.
2 (of water, wind, smoke, etc.) to move fast in a circle:
- The water eddied ceaselessly in the wake of the boat.

There is a passage between the islands and the shore filled with sunken rocks, which form violent eddies.
They bicycled to a secluded spot among the willows where the water swirled into an eddy about four feet deep.
If you put a particle in the middle of the light loop, it would be dragged around by gravitational force, much like the eddies created when you stir a spoon in a cup of coffee.
The pictures showed that when the water reached a certain speed, it began to break into eddies, waves and cross-currents.
These larger eddies can stir the fluid more efficiently, thereby reducing concentration fluctuations (see figure 4).
The presence of active small-scale turbulence appears responsible for the continuing isotropy of the smallest eddies.
A commonly used procedure to estimate turbulent diffusion times is in terms of enhanced turbulent (eddy) diffusivities.
As soon as t* = 1.5, the velocities become sufficiently high in the wake for a pair of secondary eddies to develop.