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noun
A non-dispersive wave in the ocean or atmosphere that balances the Earth's Coriolis force against a topographic boundary such as a coastline, or a waveguide such as the equator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, geography, meteorology, natural-sciences, oceanography
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noun
A long-scale perturbation mode of a vortex in superfluid dynamics.
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History
Named after Lord Kelvin, the discoverer (1879).
