TURBULENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Unstable flow of a liquid or gas

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)