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    TURBULENCY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Unstable flow of a liquid or gasplay

    Synonyms:

    turbulence; turbulency

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural phenomena

    Hypernyms ("turbulency" is a kind of...):

    physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "turbulency"):

    countercurrent; crosscurrent; rip; riptide; tide rip (a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current)

    Derivation:

    turbulent ((of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence)

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