'Turbulence' definitions:
Definition of 'turbulence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Unstable flow of a liquid or gas [syn: turbulence, turbulency]
noun
Instability in the atmosphere
noun
A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang]
Definition of 'Turbulence'
From: GCIDE
- Turbulence \Tur"bu*lence\, n. [L. turbulentia: cf. F. turbulence.] The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness; insubordination; rioting. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'turbulence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- aerospace,
- aerosphere,
- agitation,
- air flow,
- air hole,
- air pocket,
- airspace,
- asperity,
- babel,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- bump,
- bumpiness,
- burble,
- bustle,
- cacophony,
- CAT,
- ceiling,
- chaos,
- choppiness,
- churn,
- commotion,
- confusion,
- conturbation,
- cragginess,
- crosswind,
- derangement,
- din,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disintegration,
- disjunction,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disproportion,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- disruption,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- embroilment,
- empty space,
- entropy,
- excitement,
- fanaticism,
- favorable wind,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgets,
- fight,
- flap,
- flow,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutteration,
- fog,
- foment,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- frenzy,
- front,
- fume,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- fuss,
- granulation,
- haphazardness,
- harshness,
- head wind,
- high-pressure area,
- hispidity,
- hole,
- hubbub,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- incoherence,
- indiscriminateness,
- inequality,
- inharmonious harmony,
- inquietude,
- ionosphere,
- irregularity,
- jaggedness,
- jetstream,
- jitters,
- joltiness,
- jumpiness,
- lather,
- low-pressure area,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- moil,
- most admired disorder,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- overcast,
- pandemonium,
- passion,
- pell-mell,
- perturbation,
- pocket,
- pother,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- racket,
- rage,
- raggedness,
- randomness,
- restlessness,
- roil,
- rough air,
- roughness,
- rout,
- row,
- ruckus,
- ruffle,
- ruggedness,
- rugosity,
- rumpus,
- scraggliness,
- seethe,
- seething,
- soup,
- space,
- stew,
- stir,
- storminess,
- stratosphere,
- substratosphere,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- tail wind,
- tempestuousness,
- to-do,
- tooth,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- trough,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- tumultuousness,
- turbidity,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unevenness,
- unrest,
- unruliness,
- unsmoothness,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- uproar,
- upset,
- visibility,
- visibility zero,
- vortex,
- whirl,
- wildness,
- yeastiness,
- zeal,
- zealousness