cavitation
pronunciation
How to pronounce cavitation in British English:
UK [ˌkævɪ'teɪʃən]
How to pronounce cavitation in American English:
US [ˌkævə'teɪʃən]
Word Origin
- cavitation (n.)
- "formation of bubbles in fluid," 1895, from cavity + -ation. Earlier as a medical term (1868).
Example
- 1. The growth and collapse of transient cavitation bubbles .
- 2. Extremely high velocities should be avoided due to possible cavitation .
- 3. Eliminating cavitation vibration of pumping unit by jet device .
- 4. The number of cavitation bubbles increases proportionally to temperature increase .
- 5. With the fast development of computational fluid dynamics techniques , computations of turbulent flow for cavitation problems seem to become popular .