adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a stormy/turbulent relationship (= one that involves many arguments )
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It had been a stormy relationship and there were frequent drunken rows.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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The town lies in North Morazn, one of the most turbulent areas of El Salvador.
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By far the most turbulent stream belonged to Wang Tai himself-Gao Yang was absolutely certain of that.
■ NOUN
flow
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At smaller Re, the difference between laminar and turbulent flow rates is too small.
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This spreading is part of the process of entrainment for a turbulent flow .
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Most specifically, Fig. 21.22 is an example of results for a turbulent flow as discussed above.
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Studies of the energy balance in turbulent flow , as in Figs. 21.8 and 21.16, provide a straight forward example of this.
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Below this slugs do not grow, and fully turbulent flow is not produced at any distance downstream.
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A physical description of the principal processes occurring within a turbulent flow can be developed from these.
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The statistical description of a turbulent flow starts by dividing the velocity and pressure field into mean and fluctuating parts.
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The large eddies are the longest-lived features of a turbulent flow .
period
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In Britain, this moment has several phases during a long and turbulent period from the late-eighteenth century to the 1840s.
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The repercussions of such a turbulent period are not all disadvantageous, however.
times
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I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars.
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In those turbulent times that produce skips, however, a slight degradation will be close to unnoticeable.
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If so, the town must have known turbulent times in the past.
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Given the turbulent times which still afflict the industry, this is a remarkable achievement.
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Three presidents came and went in those turbulent times .
years
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In its two turbulent years so far the currency has been used only for paper financial transactions.
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We would do well to ponder the anguish of those turbulent years .
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By the time she returned to effective public life the turbulent years of mass riot and discontent on the mainland were past.
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Without this revival before 1914 it is difficult to see how the parry could have survived the ten turbulent years that followed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a turbulent relationship
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Jason grew up in the South during the turbulent years of the 1960s.
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the turbulent white sea
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Change has become a constant in the turbulent economy of deregulation and global competition.
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In this way it is possible to use the lift low down with safety, provided that the thermals are not too turbulent .
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Now it was dark, and our world was a dimly seen circle of indigo water, foam-streaked and turbulent .
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Parental reactions are turbulent , and the usual pathways for the development of close parent-infant bonds are disrupted.
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The remainder of the transition process consists of the growth of these local regions of turbulent motion, whilst they travel downstream.
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The town lies in North Morazn, one of the most turbulent areas of El Salvador.
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The upshot is that small areas of the boundary layer are turbulent .
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We would do well to ponder the anguish of those turbulent years.