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vorticose, a.|vɔːtɪˈkəʊs|
[ad. L. vorticōs-us (It. vorticoso), f. vortic-, vortex vortex: see -ose.]
1. Of motion: = vortical a. 1.
1783Phil. Trans. LXXIII. p. ii, At times..the motion was undulatory, and at others vorticose. Ibid. 194 The first shock..was lateral, and then vorticose, and exceedingly violent. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 418 The wave-like motions, and those which are called vorticose or whirling in a vortex. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. xvi. 376 The displacement at first appears to be owing to a vorticose movement beneath each point thus affected. 1881C. A. Young Sun 173 Only a very small percentage of the spots show any trace of vorticose motion.
2. Resembling a vortex.
1870Matt. Williams Fuel of Sun §326. 214 The..orb would be twisted bodily into a huge vorticose crater. 1893Howlett in Sir R. Ball Story Sun 147 They are illustrative of the development of two different and remarkable groups [of sun-spots]. The first is the elegant vorticose group.
Hence vortiˈcosely adv., in the manner of a vortex; vortically.
1882Nature XXV. 291 There is a strong inflow of the air along the surface of the ground all round vorticosely towards the base of the whirlwind. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 131/2 The strong air currents which..converge vorticosely round the base of the column [of the dust storm]. |