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
  • Jetoptera's aircraft utilize a unique fluidic propulsion system, in which a turbine powers a turbo compressor.
    — 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
  • 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
  • The fluidic and elastomeric architectures required for function span several orders of magnitude from the microscale to the macroscale.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2016
  • 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
  • What Radick described about her son is yet another example of the fluidic and dynamic nature of accessibility.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The scientists see their research project as an inspiration for other roboticists who struggle to design untethered soft robots that are able to move freely in a fluidic environment.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The interface was based on a system of fluidic actuators first conceptualized a decade ago at Disney Research.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Rice researchers are working with surgeons at the Texas Medical Center to build wireless fluidic control systems that address unmet clinical needs.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But one project stands out from the cohort of fluidic telescopes, pulsed plasma rockets, and quantum-dot solar sails—not only for its underlying science fiction concept, but its comparatively straightforward conceit.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
  • Mazda’s urbane, fluidic design language, invoking the Japanese notion of kodo, is meant as counterprogramming.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • Gas generated from the fuel decomposition inflates fluidic networks downstream of the reaction sites, resulting in actuation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2016
  • The flowing fluid can transport hydraulic power to actuators, carry chemical substances such as drugs or sensing agents, and potentially transmit information signals through fluidic pathways.
    — New Atlas, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • The funding will be used to manufacture the first Zephyr rocket, establish the vehicle’s assembly line, complete electrical, propulsion, and fluidic systems and structural tests, bring the company’s test center online, and recruit new talent.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • The Bristol location of IDEX Health & Science engineers and manufactures plastic manifolds and fluidic assemblies for the in-vitro diagnostics bio market.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2026

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