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VORTICES
VORTEX
whirlpool, vortex, maelstrom
(noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution
(noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
vortices
plural of vortex
Anagrams
• evictors
Source: Wiktionary
VORTEX
Vor"tex, n.; pl. E. Vortexes, L. Vortices. Etym: [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. (Cartesian System)
Definition: 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.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. Vortex atom (Chem.), a hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion. It is conveniently regarded in certain mathematical speculations as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom.
– Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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