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Laminar vs Laminarize - What's the difference?

laminar | laminarize |

As an adjective laminar

is of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.

As a verb laminarize is

(physics|of a turbulent flow) to become laminar.

laminar

English

Adjective

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  • of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers
  • :* 1992': The '''laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violetcolored hooding of the earth. — Cormac McCarthy, ''All The Pretty Horses
  • In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
  • # (electronics) In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible.
  • laminarize

    English

    Verb

    (laminariz)
  • (physics, of a turbulent flow) To become laminar