"dead water" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1967, David W. Taylor, Report - Naval Ship Research and Development Center, page 295:",
          "text": "A \"deadwater,\" that is a region occupied by stationary fluid or by gas at suitable pressure, ahead of a concave angle was shown to be possible by Villat.",
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        "The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle, which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification (due to salinity or temperature or both), and can cause ships to become hard to control."
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        "(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle, which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification (due to salinity or temperature or both), and can cause ships to become hard to control."
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          "ref": "1905, Acadiensis - Volume 5, page 135:",
          "text": "Some of our party went down the deadwater for a short distance in it and came back with three black ducks and one golden eye.",
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          "ref": "1964, Advances in Chemical Engineering, page 160:",
          "text": "The deadwater region is viewed to be in backmix flow and to be interchanging fluid slowly with the active backmix flow region.",
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          "text": "The river is divided into two regions: the main channel and a deadwater zone.",
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          "text": "the Deadwaters of the Penobscot River"
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          "ref": "2013, Doug Roy, The River Runs Deep, page 99:",
          "text": "On other days we journeyed as far up the main branch as far as we could, sometimes following small brooks back to their deadwaters.",
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        "(nautical) The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle, which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification (due to salinity or temperature or both), and can cause ships to become hard to control."
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