vortex
Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɹtɛks/
The English word “vortex” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
- Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- 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.
- Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
- A group of vultures or buzzards.
verb
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.
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