large-scale motion
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflarge-scaleandmotion
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large-scale
adjective
uk/ˌlɑːdʒˈskeɪl/us/ˌlɑːrdʒˈskeɪl/
involving many people or things, or happening over a ...
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motion
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.ʃən/us/ˈmoʊ.ʃən/
the act or process of moving, or a particular action ...
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The advantage is convenience and the avoidance of special test parts, but the disadvantages are large heat input andlarge-scalemotion.
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Understood in this way, the opening bars articulate alarge-scalemotionfrom symmetry to asymmetry and back again.
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This may be attributed in part to the potential fluctuations and thelarge-scalemotionwithin the turbulent front.
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Here, the large-scale dynamics of the flow were characterized by uniform decay as reflected by thelarge-scalemotion.
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Generally, this upper separation limit is undoubtedly a function of the local geometry of thelarge-scalemotionin the particular flow under study.
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The large-scale motions transport by simple convection of fluid packets while there is smaller scale transport by gradient diffusion.
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Large-scale motions reflect more of the nature of the flow.
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However, in addition to vortical motion, there exists a second major class of large-scale motions known as gravity waves.
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In fact, the large-scale motions appear as single vortex loops.
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Large-scale motions in the wake region ultimately limit their growth.
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Measurements of the integral scales indicated that the large-scale motions remain essentially unaffected by the cross-stream diffusional process.
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This limited the model to the large-scale motions but it is these large eddies which have been shown t o be important in many experiments.
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The lack of preferred orientation can be explained as a consequence of the fact that the finer scales develop as secondary instabilities over the large-scale motions.
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The fine-scale motions which are superimposed on the large-scale motions are apparently 'decoupled' to some extent and the broad features of the large-scale motions are not greatly altered.
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The point is that large-scale motions in the ocean interacted with other scales by the nonlinearities in primitive equation.
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They also contribute to understanding of earthquakes; the structure of earths crust, mantle, and core; and the large-scale motions and deformation of the tectonic plates.
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