smooth flow

collocation in English

meaningsofsmoothandflow

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smooth
adjective
uk
/smuːð/us
/smuːð/
having a surface or consisting of a substance that is perfectly regular and has no holes, lumps, or areas that rise or ...
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flow
noun
uk
/fləʊ/us
/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofsmoothandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsmooth flow

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There is little obvious searching for expressions or avoidance strategies; only a conceptually difficult subject can hinder a natural,smoothflowof language.
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This average of two flux values gives a scheme which is second-order accurate insmoothflowregions.
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We consider one-dimensional flows which arise as hyperbolic invariant sets of asmoothflowon a manifold.
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If one wants special properties for asmoothflowone must make special assumptions about the invariant measure.
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Sadly, the book does not read well : structural complexities and editing weaknesses interfere with thesmoothflow.
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Determine in what measure and in what sense the homotopical information provided by asmoothflowand its inverse are redundant.
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Instead, thesmoothflowof the discourse was frequently disrupted by the 'information giver' seeking clarification or further information from the 'information receiver'.
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For asmoothflow, the scheme described above has a first-order of approximation on the spatial variables.
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It is shown that thesmoothflowof weights on such a crossed product is given by the skew-product action built from the original 1-cocycle.
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Although many investigators have studied the flow around isolated, two-dimensional bluff cylinders in a uniformsmoothflowit is seldom that such conditions are met in practice.
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Safe take-offs and landings, ensuring asmoothflowof passengers and goods, and other aspects of security contribute to a high degree of uniformity in respect of the basics.
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The difference between the right-hand sides of (2.14) and (2.16) is associated with separation a t inflow with the sharp edge andsmoothflowwith the round edge.
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I also wish to raise another point relating to security, which is extremely important and continues to hamper thesmoothflowof global maritime traffic.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Asmoothflowof the exchange of information between the security authorities, especially border control authorities, will be a key priority.
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My third point concerns thesmoothflowof orders to the industry.
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This we can only do satisfactorily by reducing our costs of production through greater efficiency and the more constant andsmoothflowof materials.
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It is essential for it to have asmoothflowof work.
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As in the factory, so on a building site, the aim must be to secure asmoothflow, without hold-ups or dislocation.
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They also reduce the cost of storage and distribution of goods, to the benefit both of competitiveness and thesmoothflowof external trade.
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