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Turbulence

noun

Unstable flow of a liquid or gas. Synonym: turbulency.

Instability in the atmosphere.

A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally). Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval.

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"Turbulence" Quotes from Famous Books

... got the upper hand of her morning governess, Miss Hume—who walked all the way from Church Dykely and back again—and of nearly everyone else; and Captain Monk gave forth his decision one day when all was turbulence—a resident governess. Mrs. Carradyne could have danced a reel for joy, and wrote to ...

— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 • Various

... though the young men no longer enjoy the advantage of a training in 'bhumiawat'. An occasional gang-robbery or bludgeon fight is the meagre modern substitute. The Rajputs or Thakurs of Bundelkhand and Gwalior still retain their old character for turbulence, but, of course, have less scope for what the author calls their 'sporting propensities' than they had ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... companion, and his children of a father and instructor, and all for what? For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow? For a precarious possession in a land of turbulence and war? Advantages, which will not certainly be gained, and of which the acquisition, if it were sure, ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... Storm, he seems to have returned with a lulling pleasure from the foam and danger of the beach to the sedgy bank and stealthy barge of the lowland river. Thenceforward his work which introduces shipping is divided into two classes; one embodying the poetry of silence and calmness, the other of turbulence and wrath. Of intermediate conditions he gives few examples; if he lets the wind down upon the sea at all, it is nearly always violent, and though the waves may not be running high, the foam is torn off ...

— The Harbours of England • John Ruskin

... turbulence ends in turbulence. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Deadwood was as bad a place as any that could be found in the mining regions, and Bill was not an officer here, as he had been in Kansas towns. As marshal of Hays and Abilene and United States marshal ...

— The Story of the Outlaw - A Study of the Western Desperado • Emerson Hough

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