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What is a vortex?

What is a vortex? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  3. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  4. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
  5. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
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Women were the vortex personified for Hitchcock, alluring sirens that drew you irresistibly to your doom.
In each case, the helicopter descended into rotor downwash and entered what is commonly called the vortex ring state.
In most species, the head carries a corona of cilia that draws a vortex of water into the mouth, which the rotifer sifts for food.
A swirling vortex of yellow and white light irised open from a small dot to a man-sized portal just above the deck in front of Illeen.
I finished high school that June and once exams and graduation was complete, I was sucked into the wedding vortex.
The wing also features three sets of vortex generators on the outboard wing to improve aileron response at high angles of attack.

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