wakeless

adj — 2 senses

wakeless

adj

Etymology From wake + -less.

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 S_b in the wakeless ”quasi-steady” flow past S_b 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.

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