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vor·tex
\ˈvȯr]ˌteks, -ȯ(ə)]\ noun
(plural vorti·ces \]d.əˌsēz\ ; also vortex·es \]ˌteksə̇z\)
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin vertex, vortex whirl, whirlpool — more at vertex
1.
a. : a supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which is also the axis of a sun or a planet
b. : something resembling such rapid rotary motion
< look forward to a time when human beings shall have sloughed off the body and become vortices of thought — Harper's >
2. : a region within a body of fluid in which the fluid elements have an angular velocity
3. [Latin]
a.
(1) : a rapidly spiraling column of air : tornado, whirlwind; especially : the eye of a cyclone
(2) : a rapidly spinning current of water : maelstrom, whirlpool
(3) : an eddying current in the slipstream of an airplane
b.
(1) : something that resembles a whirlwind or whirlpool : swirl, whirl
< the hellish vortex of battle — Time >
< such a vortex of accepted invitations … makes me positively dizzy — Siegfried Sassoon >
< created a vortex of speculation wherever she passed — V.L.Parrington >
(2) : a turbulent center
< became the howling vortex of an alarmed hospital — Earle Birney >
< politically and commercially it has become the vortex of eastern South Jersey — American Guide Series: New Jersey >
(3) : a situation or predicament into which one is irresistibly drawn
< the conflict 107 drew into its vortex the best energies of a generation — American Guide Series: Virginia >
< was sucked into the vortex of the … scandal — G.H.Genzmer >
(4) : the spiral arrangement of the muscular fibers at the apex of the heart |