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vortex
  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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  7. Examples:
    1. “The counterclockwise winds around the vortex often push Arctic air south over the USA.”
      “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.”
vortilon
  1. A small attachment mounted under the wing of an aeroplane to induce vortices to aid stability in flight.
vorticity
  1. (mathematics) A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The same mechanism of unsteady vorticity injection appears to control separation and turbulence production.”
      “The resulting vector flow fields allow for the study of the distribution of velocity, vorticity and vortices.”
      “Marconi is the person at Weidlinger whose mind is currently cradling the vorticity confinement idea.”
vortensity
  1. (physics) The ratio of vorticity to density of a rotating fluid.
vortexon
  1. (physics) A toroidal vortex in a fluid
vortexing
  1. The formation of a vortex.
vortensities
  1. plural of vortensity
vorticities
  1. plural of vorticity
vortexons
  1. plural of vortexon
vortilons
  1. plural of vortilon
vortexes
  1. plural of vortex
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Dust devils are swirling vortexes that can tower several miles high and a quarter-mile wide at the base.”
      “The turbulence this mammoth decline will create will throw every aspect of our lives through whirling vortexes.”
      “We tell you there are many vortexes now surfacing as a result of the energy being absorbed from the sun.”
vortices
  1. plural of vortex
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We trained a thrush nightingale to fly steadily in the wind tunnel, near a reference point to allow visualisation of its wake vortices.”
      “Low-speed turning by sunfish involves the generation of paired counterrotating vortices by the strong-side pectoral fin.”
      “When the group eventually reassembled on the boat, we saw large vortices at the surface, some resembling giant whirlpools.”
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