How to Use fluidic in a Sentence
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The second process, known as fluidic thrust vectoring, uses air blowers to change the direction of the aircraft’s exhaust.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2017 -
The compressor expels the fluidic air and creates a vortex that in turn sucks in and pushes out ambient air, generating thrust.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021 -
Such a cyborg eye implant could change its shape and adjust the wearer's vision by using technologies such as liquid crystals , micro mirrors, and tiny micro-fluidic pumps.
— Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016 -
Jetoptera's aircraft utilize a unique fluidic propulsion system, in which a turbine powers a turbo compressor.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2021 -
To pull this off, scientists used a tiny fluidic oscillator, a device with no moving parts that’s completely driven by gas produced by lithium nitrate crystals.
— David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2020 -
Reynolds showed how large groups could move toward a destination or avoid obstacles with a seamlessly fluidic agility — there's a video showing algorithmic flocking here.
— David Hambling, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021 -
The principle behind this new fluidic behavior is relatively well known in network science: Braess’ paradox.
— The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2020 -
What Radick described about her son is yet another example of the fluidic and dynamic nature of accessibility.
— Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Much like the electronic microchips in your computer and phone, fluidic circuits are integrated microprocessors that use water and air pressure to control computing devices like robots.
— Dan Patterson, CBS News, 14 July 2021 -
But in making soft robots more sophisticated, fluidic circuits also render the machines harder to manufacture and assemble.
— Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 23 July 2021 -
Mazda’s urbane, fluidic design language, invoking the Japanese notion of kodo, is meant as counterprogramming.
— Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 May 2021 -
Mark Weislogel, a professor of mechanical and materials engineering, said that the science used in the cup’s development has other fluidic system applications.
— The Editors, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2015 -
This led us to build a modular instrument architecture, allowing functional flexibility, for example, to vary temperature, rate of fluidic movement, mixing and capture as required to support a specific test technology.
— Pooja Pathak, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
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