TURBULENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turbulency mean? 

• TURBULENCY (noun)
  The noun TURBULENCY has 1 sense:

1. unstable flow of a liquid or gas

  Familiarity information: TURBULENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBULENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unstable flow of a liquid or gas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

turbulence; turbulency

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)