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Found 2 items, similar to vortex.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vortex
vortex
n 1: the shape of something rotating rapidly [syn:
whirl,
swirl,
convolution]
2: a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting
of conflicting tides) [syn:
whirlpool,
maelstrom]
[also:
vortices (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vortex
Vortex
\Vor"tex\, n.; pl. E.
Vortexes, L.
Vortices. [L.
vortex, vertex, -icis, fr. vortere, vertere, to turn. See
Vertex.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Cartesian System) 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.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small
Turbellaria belonging to
Vortex and allied genera. See
Illustration in Appendix.
[1913 Webster]
Vortex atom (Chem.), a hypothetical ring-shaped mass of
elementary matter in continuous vortical motion. It was
conveniently regarded in certain early mathematical models
as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom,
but is no longer considered a useful model, having been
superseded by quantum mechanics.
Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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