How to Use fluidic in a Sentence

fluidic

adjective
  • 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
  • Gas generated from the fuel decomposition inflates fluidic networks downstream of the reaction sites, resulting in actuation.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2016
  • 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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