I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
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Some general comments about the large eddies are needed before we consider a wake specifically.
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Such a marked contrast between the curves seems unlikely to arise unless there are coherent features in the large eddy motion.
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The large eddies are the longest-lived features of a turbulent flow.
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There is then little direct interaction between the large eddies governing the energy transfer and the small dissipating eddies.
small
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There is thus an intensification of the motion on a smaller scale; that is a transfer of energy to smaller eddies .
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Hence the viscous dissipation is associated with high wavenumbers; i.e. it is brought about by small eddies .
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The small dissipative eddies must be generated from larger ones.
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Beyond it flowed the heavy mainstream, with small eddies curling along and through the wire on the surface.
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There is then little direct interaction between the large eddies governing the energy transfer and the small dissipating eddies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, these eddies are particularly apparent in experiments with dyed wakes.
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But he attempts to capture the flow of the music in constant eddies of movement.
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Sabour was an eddy of life in the midst of a sea of lethargy.
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Small eddies in the flow entrain cold water, mixing it into the plume, cooling the plume quickly.
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Some general comments about the large eddies are needed before we consider a wake specifically.
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The details of the evening, the chronology of conversation came in successive eddies of reflected delight and despair.
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The figure shows schematically the pattern of motion produced by several such eddies.
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We got too deep into the whitewater, skimmed a hidden back eddy , and were spun around 180 degrees.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the water rose it eddied into whirlpools that threatened to sweep her away.
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At the hall cupboard she stopped, taking a deep steadying breath to calm the currents suddenly eddying through her body.
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Powerful emotion eddied around us: grief, sadness, fear.
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The current eddied among and between the shops and the bank and the Hotel Rehoboth as black and thick as oil.
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The life of the airport eddied round her.