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CORIOLIS EFFECT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("Coriolis effect" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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