Usually means: Transport of substance by fluid.
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  1. advection: Merriam-Webster
  2. advection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. advection: Collins English Dictionary
  5. advection: Vocabulary.com
  6. advection: Wordnik
  7. advection: Wiktionary
  8. advection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. advection: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. advection: Dictionary.com
  11. Advection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. advection: Rhymezone
  13. advection: FreeDictionary.org
  14. advection: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. advection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. advection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. advection: Merriam-Webster

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  1. advection: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Advection: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Advection: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ADVECTION: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (advection)

▸ noun:  (meteorology, earth science, physical chemistry) The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concurrent transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
▸ noun:  (physics) The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.

Similar:
convection, current, forced convection, attitude, flow, flying, airstream, backlayering, gravity assist, airflow, more...

Opposite:
convection, diffusion, dispersion

Types:
diffusion, convection, turbulence, more...

Phrases:
advection fog, advection equation, warm advection, cold advection, moisture advection, more...

Adjectives:
horizontal, vertical, warm, cold, chaotic, differential, strong, positive, thermal, lateral, mean

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Similar:
convection, current, forced convection, attitude, flow, flying, airstream, backlayering, gravity assist, airflow, more...

Opposite:
convection, diffusion, dispersion

Types:
diffusion, convection, turbulence, more...

Phrases:
advection fog, advection equation, warm advection, cold advection, moisture advection, positive vorticity advection, more...

Adjectives:
horizontal, vertical, warm, cold, chaotic, differential, strong, positive, thermal, lateral, mean

Colors:
    blue,     gray,     white,     light blue,     sky blue, more...



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