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vorticities

vorticities is the plural of vorticity.

Meaning of vorticity

Noun

vorticity (countable and uncountable, plural vorticities)

  1. A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field.
    • It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).2004, Zhu Xun, Li Xiaofan, Cai Ming, Observation, Theory And Modeling Of Atmospheric Variability, →ISBN, page 13

Phrases with vorticities

Questions about vorticities

What is vorticities the plural of?
Vorticities is the plural of vorticity.

Words near vorticities in the dictionary

  1. vorticism
  2. vorticisms
  3. vorticist
  4. vorticistic
  5. vorticists
  6. vorticities
  7. vorticity
  8. vorticose
  9. vorticosely
  10. vorticular
  11. vorticularly

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