English Explanatory Dictionary

vortex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  2. Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  3. Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  4. 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.
  5. Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
verb
  1. To mix using a vortex mixer.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɔɹtɛks/ en-us-vortex.ogg en-au-vortex.ogg

Word forms

vortex vortices vortexes vortexing vortexed

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vortex. Doublet of vertex.

Related words

vortical vorticity eddy ley line maelstrom

Derived words

admin vortex antivortex intervortex mesovortex nanovortex nonvortex polar vortex pollen vortex quantized vortex Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube uveovortex vile vortex von Kármán vortex street vortexation vortex atom vortexer vortex filament vortex fringe vortex generator vortexlike vortex line vortex mixer vortex ring vortex shedding vortex theory vortex tube wake vortex

Translations

Aromanian: viro Aromanian: vãltoari Bulgarian: водовъртеж Catalan: remolí Catalan: vòrtex Chinese Mandarin: 渦旋 /涡旋 Czech: vír Danish: hvirvel Dutch: wervelwind Dutch: wervel Dutch: draaikolk Esperanto: vortico Esperanto: kirlo Finnish: pyörre French: tourbillon West-Frisian: draaikolk Galician: vórtice Galician: remuíño Georgian: მორევი German: Wirbel Greek: δίνη Icelandic: hringiða Ido: vortico Japanese: 渦 Korean: 소용돌이 Northern Kurdish: bagerr Northern Kurdish: babelîsk Latin: vortex Norwegian: hvirvelstrøm Polish: wir Portuguese: turbilhão Portuguese: redemoinho Portuguese: rodamoinho Portuguese: remoinho Portuguese: vórtice Romanian: vâltoare Romanian: vârtej Romanian: bulboană Russian: водоворо́т Russian: вихрь Russian: воро́нка Serbo-Croatian: вир Serbo-Croatian: вртлог Serbo-Croatian: vir Serbo-Croatian: vrtlog Spanish: remolino Turkish: girdap Turkish: burgaç Ukrainian: ви́хор Ukrainian: коло́ворот Welsh: llynclyn Welsh: trobwll
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