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Definition of Vortex

Vortex 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. 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. Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. Related Definitions: Account, Action, Allied, Also, An, And, Any, Appendix, Around, Assumed, Attempted, Axis, Belonging, Bodies, By, Cavity, Center, Circle, Circular, Collection, Composing, Draw, Eddy, Endowed, Especially, Fluid, For, Form, Formation, Genera, Having, Illustration, In, It, Liquid, Mass, Matter, Motion, Numerous, Of, One, Or, Planet, Rapid, Rotary, See, Small, Species, Subject, Subtile, Such, Sun, Supposed, Tending, The, Theory, To, Towards, Turbellaria, Universe, Vacuum, Very, Vortex, Vortices, Was, Which, Whirling, Whirlpool, With

Vortex Quotations When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling. Barbara Amiel The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. Ezra Pound Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. Jon Lee Anderson I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story. Rob Walton

Vortex Translations vortex in German is Wirbel, wirbelnde Bewegung vortex in Swedish is virvel

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