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The state or fact of being turbulent or agitated; tempestuousness, disturbance.

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Disturbance in a gas or fluid, characterized by evidence of internal motion or unrest.

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Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.

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An instance or type of such state or disturbance.

We're running into a little turbulence from the storm.

The little plane danced and swayed in the turbulence, constantly buffeted by the increas­ing wind.

This was the most distressing episode in all the turbulence of territorial days and border warfare in Kansas.

Hail meant turbulence, and turbulence meant there could be a tornado close.

There was no substratum of popular discontent left in England on which a dangerous insurrection might be built up. It was to be forty years before another outbreak of turbulence against the crown was to break forth.

Their turbulence still continued, and since 1849 they have been the object of over fifty punitive expeditions.

Crete being thus removed from the scope of her action, Turkey found ample occupation in the almost constant turbulence of the Yemen, of Albania and of Macedonia.

The examinations business has been subject to extreme turbulence over the past two years and continues to be very uncertain.

But something may be remarked in passing of the leaders in the period of turbulence.

He said he'd get something to eat later because with the weather front coming through, there might be a lot of turbulence.

But turbulence in the motion will vitiate the principle that a bounding surface will always consist of the same fluid particles, as we see on the surface of turbulent water.

His rule was noted for firmness, moderation and high political sagacity, and he succeeded for a long time in retaining the friendship and confidence of his master the shah, although his career was beset with political intrigues and jealousy on the part of rival and court favourites, and with internal turbulence.

Colonized by the steady industrial peoples of northern Europe, there is no danger of the turbulence of the industrially indolent but more passionate peoples of Central and South America.

The growth of turbulence and misrule now induced Lord Ellenborough to interpose, and a British force under Sir Hugh Gough advanced upon Gwalior (December 1843).

The other features noted in the epistle, their turbulence, drunkenness and greed, all happen to be verified in the pages of ancient writers like Polybius.

Compelling King Solomon to own Henrys supremacy he restored the influence of Germany in Hungary; in .internal affairs he restrained the turbulence of the princes, but he made many enemies, especially in Saxony, and in 1066 Henry, who had just been declared of age, was compelled to dismiss him.

For nearly two centuries each reign began with a long royal minority, increasing the power and multiplying the resolved to stand by the Steward and the blood of Bruce, preferred the heavy taxation and the turbulence inevitable under such a king as David to union under an English prince.

Many of these found their way to Crete, and becoming porters, &c. in Canea and Candia, were notorious for turbulence and fanaticism.

Left to take care of themselves, islands in a sea of turbulence, they grew in the sense of self-reliance and independence; they grew also to be aggressive, quarrelsome and ambitious.

During the regency of Maximilian the turbulence of the Hooks caused much strife and unrest in Holland.

What did follow was a time of universal turbulence and suspicion, in which the pride of the nation was wounded again and again.

He had little difficulty in repressing the turbulence of the nobles which had been quickened into life during the regency of his brother, but found it less easy to deal with the towns.

One memorable section set the turbulence of a Full Monte workout against the calm of a trombone chorale.

Options include four levels of difficulty, day or night flying, crosswind and turbulence effects, and cloud.

The UM uses a full compressible equation set, no turbulence closure (numerical diffusion only) and a hybrid terrain following co-ordinate system.

Its last period of government (1974-79) ended with the Labor in considerable ideological disarray and internal party turbulence followed in the 1980's.

The inputs to PD are air temperature, air velocity, and turbulence intensity.

Stock market volatility is therefore of serious concern as investors, faced with financial turbulence, may behave in wholly irrational ways.

It will be necessary for the student to gain a thorough understanding of boundary-layer meteorology and atmospheric turbulence.

Care will be needed to ensure that any transitional arrangements do minimize turbulence.

Shortly after leaving the ground, the aircraft encountered a little turbulence and the left wing moved down.

One houses the combustion chamber with a specially constructed air flow passage and burner head to eliminate combustion air turbulence and flame roar.

The cell was equipped with fans to generate turbulence of variable intensity.

The cloud covered sky created enough turbulence to give the plain a shaky feeling.

They could also be used to reduce the turbulence over aircraft wings.

Under average seeing conditions, atmospheric turbulence limits the highest useful magnification to 25 to 30 times per unit of aperture.

With the acceptance that regions of star formation evolve rapidly and that the features are transient, the properties of supersonic turbulence become crucial.

The rudder is also subject to severe turbulence caused by the ship's propeller.

The wind speeds up significantly near the top of the hill and the air flow should be reasonably smooth and free from excessive turbulence.

Then there's his lyrics, wrapped in emotional turbulence of the kind that evokes the lump in throat effect.

I turn and taxi through the slight wake turbulence to the point where I will start my take-off run.

Essential part of the workshop is concentrated on new features of quantum turbulence compared to the classical one.

There is evidence that allowing air to emerge from wing surfaces through arrays of fine drilled holes can reduce air turbulence.

Residual jitter can arises from uncorrected atmospheric turbulence as well as telescope wind shake.

But industries of every description were most seriously crippled by the spirit of turbulence and disorder which manifested itself throughout Transcaucasia in the years 1904-1906, accentuated as they were further by the outbreak of the long-rooted racial enmities between theArmenians and the Tatars, especially at Baku in 1905.

The rudder is also subject to severe turbulence caused by the ship 's propeller.

Then there 's his lyrics, wrapped in emotional turbulence of the kind that evokes the lump in throat effect.

Turbulence closure is by means of a low Reynolds number k - e model.

Of interest to the physical oceanographic community is the autonomous capture and transmission of full-depth turbulence parameter profiles.

A variety of turbulence models are available for use.