vortex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.
Inflected forms:
form: vortices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vortexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vortexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vortexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vortexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vortexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
pos: noun
examples: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
gloss: Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It’s hard to imagine that there is any major American clothing brand that does not have a store in the consumer vortex that is East Hampton; […]
Montreal in the summer is a vortex of decadent food, 24-ounce cocktails and carefree people. We reveled in it, danced, swam in fountains.
gloss: Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Novv ſhou'd it happen that any of theſe Sun-like Bodies in the Centers of the ſeveral Vortices ſhou'd be ſo incruſtated and vveaken'd, as to be carried about in the Vortex of the true Sun, if it vvere of leſs Solidity, or leſs capable of Motion than the Globules, tovvards the extremity of the Solar Vortex, then it vvou'd deſcend tovvard the Sun, till it met vvith Globules of the ſame Solidity, and capable of the ſame degree of Motion vvith it, and being fixt there, it vvou'd for ever be carried about by the Motion of the Vortex, vvithout either approaching to, or receding from the Sun, and ſo become a Planet.
gloss: Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
pos: noun
gloss: To mix using a vortex mixer.
pos: verb
Related words: vortical
vorticity
eddy
ley line
maelstrom
Derived words: admin vortex
antivortex
intervortex
mesovortex
nanovortex
nonvortex
polar vortex
pollen vortex
quantized vortex
Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube
uveovortex
vile vortex
von Kármán vortex street
vortexation
vortex atom
vortexer
vortex filament
vortex fringe
vortex generator
vortexlike
vortex line
vortex mixer
vortex ring
vortex shedding
vortex theory
vortex tube
wake vortex
Translations:
lang: Aromanian
word: viro
lang: Aromanian
word: vãltoari
lang: Bulgarian
word: водовъртеж
roman: vodovǎrtež
lang: Catalan
word: remolí
lang: Catalan
word: vòrtex
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 渦旋 /涡旋
roman: wōxuán
lang: Czech
word: vír
lang: Danish
word: hvirvel
lang: Dutch
word: wervelwind
lang: Dutch
word: wervel
lang: Dutch
word: draaikolk
lang: Esperanto
word: vortico
lang: Esperanto
word: kirlo
lang: Finnish
word: pyörre
lang: French
word: tourbillon
lang: West-Frisian
word: draaikolk
lang: Galician
word: vórtice
lang: Galician
word: remuíño
lang: Georgian
word: მორევი
roman: morevi
lang: German
word: Wirbel
lang: Greek
word: δίνη
roman: díni
lang: Icelandic
word: hringiða
lang: Ido
word: vortico
lang: Japanese
word: 渦
roman: uzu
lang: Korean
word: 소용돌이
roman: soyongdori
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bagerr
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: babelîsk
lang: Latin
word: vortex
lang: Norwegian
word: hvirvelstrøm
lang: Polish
word: wir
lang: Portuguese
word: turbilhão
lang: Portuguese
word: redemoinho
lang: Portuguese
word: rodamoinho
lang: Portuguese
word: remoinho
lang: Portuguese
word: vórtice
lang: Romanian
word: vâltoare
lang: Romanian
word: vârtej
lang: Romanian
word: bulboană
lang: Russian
word: водоворо́т
roman: vodovorót
lang: Russian
word: вихрь
roman: vixrʹ
lang: Russian
word: воро́нка
roman: vorónka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вир
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вртлог
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vir
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vrtlog
lang: Spanish
word: remolino
lang: Turkish
word: anafor
lang: Turkish
word: girdap
lang: Turkish
word: burgaç
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́хор
roman: výxor
lang: Ukrainian
word: коло́ворот
roman: kolóvorot
lang: Welsh
word: llynclyn
lang: Welsh
word: trobwll