■ noun Physics a dimensionless number used in fluid mechanics to indicate whether fluid flow is steady or turbulent.
Origin
early 20th cent.: named after the English physicist Osborne Reynolds .
■ noun Physics a dimensionless number used in fluid mechanics to indicate whether fluid flow is steady or turbulent.
Origin
early 20th cent.: named after the English physicist Osborne Reynolds .
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004