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von kármán vortex street

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables
von kar-man vor-tex street
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A double row of vortices in a fluid sometimes found in the wake of a cylindrical body (such as in a river, downstream of a bridge support), eddies being produced from alternate sides of the body.

Etymology

After Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán.

Inflected Forms

von Kármán vortex streets (plural) von Karman vortex street (alternative)

Synonyms

Kármán vortex street Karman vortex street Kármán street Karman street

Questions

What does von kármán vortex street mean?
A double row of vortices in a fluid sometimes found in the wake of a cylindrical body (such as in a river, downstream of a bridge support), eddies being produced from alternate sides of the body.
Where does von kármán vortex street come from?
After Hungarian physicist Theodore von Kármán.

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