Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Composed of or disposed in laminæ, or thin plates or layers; lamellar.
- Having or being a lamina or laminæ; laminate.
Wiktionary
- adj. of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers
- adj. In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. arranged in or consisting of laminae
Etymologies
- From Latin lamina. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“ROSS: We use what we call a laminar flow, a very smooth flow that's very close to the surface of the orbiter's underbelly to provide additional insulation.”
“The P-51/F-51 was the first aircraft to employ the NACA’s so-called laminar flow airfoil and could dive to around Mach 0.8.”
“(18-23 miles) per hour -- the airflow becomes smooth, or "laminar," which instantly boosts the air's braking effect, sometimes by as much as 150 percent.”
“But driving from Laramie to Centennial on a windy day when the sky was filled with stretched-out laminar wave clouds I saw to the west, in the direction of the distant property, one cloud in the shape of an immense bird, the head and beak, the breast looming over the Rockies.”
“She found that property one windy day, when she was driving west from Laramie and "the sky was filled with stretched-out laminar wave clouds.”
“Because the designers do not know how to cool them; they don't understand when or whether the boundary layer inside the engine is turbulent or laminar.”
“Such precipitation will result in greater temperature gradients, meaning greater windspeeds, and more mixing of the atmosphere through laminar and turbulent flow, which we realize as stronger storms and changed precipitation patterns, including greater numbers of floods and droughts.”
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“Denclicles also reduce water turbulence by increasing laminar flow along the shark's surface.”
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“I shrilled at them, before hurling a perfectly formed three-ounce biscuit of quartz across the laminar brine.”
“Ultimately, the resultant rim shape has a wider, deeper tire bed than any prior Reynolds wheel, yet the smooth and parallel rim sidewalls help turbulent air reattach into laminar flow, according to Lew.”
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for laminar.
ruzuzu Iroquoisy. I was just watching a video about "Characteristics of Laminar and Turbulent Flow" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIHVh3cIujU) and thought I'd come over here and see if there were any interesting citations or comments. That's not the iroquoisy part. The iroquoisy part is that I'm writing this on September 11, 2012. Sep 11, 2012
bilby Poor Eddy. Nov 11, 2008
chained_bear "Dr. Louis W. Uccellini, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and an expert on snowstorms, compares what was happening on the ground as the cold front came through to the smoke and ash roiling through the canyons of lower Manhattan after the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001: 'It was not a laminar flow in which the currents move in parallel layers, but a flow moving in turbulent eddies. The turbulence behind this front must have been incredible. The air was rolling over at the same time that it was coming down. The effect was like putting the snow and ice in a grinder. The turbulence pulverized the snow to talcum powder as it entered the last mile or so of the atmosphere above the ground.'"
—David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 130 Nov 11, 2008