laminar flow

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   nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae)

   Broaderstreamline flow

Questions about laminar flow

What does laminar flow mean?

laminar flow means "nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae)".

Is laminar flow a common word?

laminar flow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.