All 4 Uses of
turbulent
in
The Glass Castle
- Dad told us that zone was known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order.†
p. 61.9 *
- He'd been stone-cold sober since entering the hospital, and reading a lot more about chaos theory, particularly about the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum, a physicist at Los Alamos who had made a study of the transition between order and turbulence.†
p. 261.2
- Dad said he was damned if Feigenbaum didn't make a persuasive case that turbulence was not in fact random but followed a sequential spectrum of varying frequencies.†
p. 261.3
- A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order.†
p. 288.9
Definition:
a state of disturbance and disorder
or:
of liquid or gas: rapid and irregular flow
or:
of liquid or gas: rapid and irregular flow