Turbulent vs Fluid - What's the difference?
turbulent | fluid |
Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (physics) Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
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, title=Not Just Going with the Flow
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(not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
In a state of flux; subject to change.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
(of an asset) Convertible into cash.
As an adjective turbulent
is violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.As a noun fluid is
fluid.turbulent
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Adjective
(en adjective)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}
Derived terms
* turbulently * turbulent flowExternal links
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Noun
(wikipedia fluid)citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid , which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
Derived terms
* amber fluid * brake fluid * fluid mechanicsAdjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}