Wake

Wake

A wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body, caused by the flow of surrounding fluid around the body.

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Famous quotes containing the word wake:

    “No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.
    What hours, O what black hours we have spent
    This night!”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “What so soon will wake and grow
    Utterly unlike the snow.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)