turbulència

See also: turbulência and turbulencia

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin turbulentia. First attested in 1696.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [tur.buˈlɛn.si.ə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [tuɾ.buˈlɛn.si.a]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnsiə, -ɛnsia
  • Hyphenation: tur‧bu‧lèn‧ci‧a

Noun

turbulència f (plural turbulències)

  1. turbulence (property of being turbulent)
  2. turbulence (disturbance of order)
  3. (physics, hydraulics) turbulence (disordered movement of the particles of a fluid in which, instead of following parallel trajectories, as in the laminar regime, they describe sinuous trajectories and form eddies)
    • 1995, Jordi Bascompte, Jordi Flos, Ordre i caos en ecologia‎[1], →ISBN, page 71:
      En aquesta darrera, s'arriba a la turbulència per un increment indefinit en el nom-bre de freqüències. En el mecanisme de Ruelle i Taken, la turbulència apareix juntament amb la tercera freqüència incommensurable amb les anteriors.
      In the latter, turbulence is reached by an indefinite increase in the number of frequencies. In the mechanism of Ruelle and Taken, the turbulence appears together with the third frequency incommensurable with the previous ones.

Derived terms

nouns
  • turbulència atmosfèrica f
adjectives

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