Eddy \Ed"dy\ ([e^]d"d[y^]), n.; pl. {Eddies} ([e^]d"d[i^]z). [Prob. fr. Icel. i[eth]a; cf. Icel. pref. i[eth]- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-.] 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool.
And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. --Dryden.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. --Addison.
Note: Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. --Dryden.
Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Eddied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eddying}.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.
Eddying round and round they sink. --Wordsworth.
Eddy \Ed"dy\, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]
The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. --Thomson.
The order today expands the visual inspections to planes with at least 30,000 landings and requires those with 50,000 landings to undergo so-called "eddy current" inspections using high-frequency electronic devices.