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:

    “I know if I wake up cold,

    and go out into the clear spring night,
    still dark and precise with stars,
    I will feel the wind coming down hard
    like his hand, in fever, on my forehead.”
    —Stanley Plumly (b. 1939)

    “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)