Vortex

Quick meaning: Vortex is a noun meaning A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

Meaning

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
2. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
3. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
4. (chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer.
5. (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.

Example Sentences

In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.

Montreal in the summer is a vortex of decadent food, 24-ounce cocktails and carefree people. We reveled in it, danced, swam in fountains.

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; […]

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.

Word Forms

• vortices
• vortexes
• vortexing
• vortexed

Synonyms for vortex

Depending on context, synonyms include maelstrom, whirl, convolution, swirl, whirlpool.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maelstrom, whirlpool, swirl, convolution, whirl, wave.

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