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Definition of Vortex
1. Noun. The shape of something rotating rapidly.
Generic synonyms: Round Shape
Derivative terms: Swirl, Swirl, Whirl, Whirl
2. Noun. A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides).
Generic synonyms: Current, Stream
Specialized synonyms: Charybdis
Derivative terms: Whirlpool
Definition of Vortex
1. n. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
2. n. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
Definition of Vortex
1. a whirling mass of fluid [n -TEXES or -TICES] : VORTICAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Vortex
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Origin: L. Vortex, vertex, -icis, fr. Vortere, vertere, to turn. See Vertex.
1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
2. A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Vortex
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