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wakeless

wakeless

English

Adjective

wakeless (not comparable)

  1. Without (the possibility of) waking.
    the wakeless sleep
    wakeless oblivion
  2. Without a wake.
    • 2010 Theodore Yaotsu Wu, "A Review on Fish Swimming and Bird/Insect Flight" arxiv
      Here, γ0(ξ, t) is the vortex bound to Sb in the wakeless ”quasi-steady” flow past Sb which can be determined by steady airfoil theory for the original prescribed Un(ξ, t), with time t frozen to serve merely as a parameter for the moment.