| Turbulence | |
noun | |
| 1. | unstable flow of a liquid or gas |
| 2. | instability in the atmosphere |
| 3. | a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" |
Chaos
c.1440, "gaping void," from L. chaos, from Gk. khaos "abyss, that which gapes wide open, is vast and empty," from *khnwos, from PIE base *gheu-, *gh(e)i- "to gape" (cf. Gkkhaino "I yawn," O.E. ginian, O.N. ginnunga-gap; see yawn). Meaning "utter confusion" (1606) is extended from theological use of chaos for "the void at the beginning of creation" in Vulgate version of Genesis. The Gk. for "disorder" was tarakhe, however the use of chaos here was rooted in Hesiod ("Theogony"), who describes khaos as the primeval emptiness of the Universe, begetter of Erebus and Nyx ("Night"), and in Ovid ("Metamorphoses "), who opposes Khaos to Kosmos, "the ordered Universe." Chaotic is from 1713.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Od
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)–noun
| a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. |
Also, odyl, odyle.
[Origin: 1840–50; arbitrary name coined by Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869), German scientist
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Ahaha random words that I think needs to be known... Or at least clarified...
