Vortex
noun
A spiral movement of fluid or air, often created by water or wind.
The water in the bathtub was spinning into a vortex
Often appears as...
- cyclone vortex
- vortex flow
noun
Something that pulls you towards its center, often referring to a situation or condition that is hard to escape.
He got pulled into a vortex of despair after losing his job
Often appears as...
- vortex of despair
- vortex of events
noun
A main or central part into which parts or elements merge showing rapid rotation.
He found himself in the vortex of international politics
Often appears as...
- vortex of politics
- vortex of warfare
noun
In physics, it refers to a region within a magnetic field, or any fluid, where the flow revolves around an axis line.
The scientist observed the vortex in the magnetic field
Often appears as...
- magnetic vortex
- quantum vortex
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noun
A spiral movement of fluid or air, often created by water or wind.
The water in the bathtub was spinning into a vortex
Often appears as...
- cyclone vortex
- vortex flow
noun
Something that pulls you towards its center, often referring to a situation or condition that is hard to escape.
He got pulled into a vortex of despair after losing his job
Often appears as...
- vortex of despair
- vortex of events
noun
A main or central part into which parts or elements merge showing rapid rotation.
He found himself in the vortex of international politics
Often appears as...
- vortex of politics
- vortex of warfare
noun
In physics, it refers to a region within a magnetic field, or any fluid, where the flow revolves around an axis line.
The scientist observed the vortex in the magnetic field
Often appears as...
- magnetic vortex
- quantum vortex
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Dynamic Movement
Think of 'vortex' as dynamic; linked with energy or movement in fluid or air.
Leaves danced in the vortex caused by the passing truck.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Spiral
'Vortex' often implies a visible spiral shape, like water going down a drain.
The boat was caught in a swirling vortex.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Phenomena
Use 'vortex' when describing natural phenomena, especially with swirling motions.
A dust vortex swept across the open fields.
Pro Tip 1/3Dynamic Movement
Think of 'vortex' as dynamic; linked with energy or movement in fluid or air.
Leaves danced in the vortex caused by the passing truck.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Spiral
'Vortex' often implies a visible spiral shape, like water going down a drain.
The boat was caught in a swirling vortex.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Phenomena
Use 'vortex' when describing natural phenomena, especially with swirling motions.
A dust vortex swept across the open fields.
Pro Tip 1/3Dynamic Movement
Think of 'vortex' as dynamic; linked with energy or movement in fluid or air.
Leaves danced in the vortex caused by the passing truck.
Pro Tip 2/3Visible Spiral
'Vortex' often implies a visible spiral shape, like water going down a drain.
The boat was caught in a swirling vortex.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Phenomena
Use 'vortex' when describing natural phenomena, especially with swirling motions.
A dust vortex swept across the open fields.
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
above the cloud layer and below the cloud layer differ significantly, and in the middle, in between, you get this undulating of the air, and if the difference in those speeds is just right, the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices. All right. Those are rarer clouds than the cirrus,
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Cloudy with a chance of...
significantly and in the middle in between you get this undulating of the air and if the difference in those speeds is just right the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices all right those are rarer clouds than the Cirrus but they're not that rare if you look up
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Tornadoes 101 PIPE National...
seconds change direction in a heartbeat and their devastation can last a lifetime exactly how and why tornadoes occur is still a bit of a mystery but an indication that one is forming is a wall cloud fast-moving winds roll air below into a horizontal vortex above opposing
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Urban Tornadoes PIPE...
Mike the one that hit advanta while this giant machine helps scientists study vortex formation up close it can't simulate a tornado's initiating conditions from a thunderstorm there are a lot of theories out there for what causes tornadoes to form one that we're
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How To Levitate PIPE The...
We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,
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John Hardy: My green...
We're on the grid. We're not proud of it. But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river.
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What does your time feel...
though it seems like just yesterday we were all rattling on about the polar vortex it's strange right as a kid the space between winter break and glorious summer freedom seems like a lifetime but now as adults will blink and suddenly
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Turbulence: One of the...
Another important characteristic of turbulence is the different scales of motion that these flows display. Turbulent flows have many differently-sized whirls called eddies, which are like vortices of different sizes and shapes.
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Reversing animal...
extinction the biotech could help solve one of the most serious problems that faces endangered species it's called extinction vortex and what happens is that very small populations remnant
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A Sci-Fi Story of...
The monster has a middle with a quiet place. She sits on the bare ground and looks up at the towering vortex around her. A rain of debris patters down. There is a deep rumble,
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
above the cloud layer and below the cloud layer differ significantly, and in the middle, in between, you get this undulating of the air, and if the difference in those speeds is just right, the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices. All right. Those are rarer clouds than the cirrus,
Video examples
Cloudy with a chance of...
significantly and in the middle in between you get this undulating of the air and if the difference in those speeds is just right the tops of the undulations curl over in these beautiful breaking wave-like vortices all right those are rarer clouds than the Cirrus but they're not that rare if you look up
Video examples
Tornadoes 101 PIPE National...
seconds change direction in a heartbeat and their devastation can last a lifetime exactly how and why tornadoes occur is still a bit of a mystery but an indication that one is forming is a wall cloud fast-moving winds roll air below into a horizontal vortex above opposing
Video examples
Urban Tornadoes PIPE...
Mike the one that hit advanta while this giant machine helps scientists study vortex formation up close it can't simulate a tornado's initiating conditions from a thunderstorm there are a lot of theories out there for what causes tornadoes to form one that we're
Video examples
How To Levitate PIPE The...
We're hoping to break a world record with this. I would love to break a world record today, -I'm not gonna lie. -Okay. And where's the other half? Is this working in a different way? So this is an acoustic vortex. So we fire these loudspeakers in a sequence,
Video examples
John Hardy: My green...
We're on the grid. We're not proud of it. But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris is taking us off the grid with solar. And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river.
Video examples
What does your time feel...
though it seems like just yesterday we were all rattling on about the polar vortex it's strange right as a kid the space between winter break and glorious summer freedom seems like a lifetime but now as adults will blink and suddenly
Video examples
Turbulence: One of the...
Another important characteristic of turbulence is the different scales of motion that these flows display. Turbulent flows have many differently-sized whirls called eddies, which are like vortices of different sizes and shapes.
Video examples
Reversing animal...
extinction the biotech could help solve one of the most serious problems that faces endangered species it's called extinction vortex and what happens is that very small populations remnant
Video examples
A Sci-Fi Story of...
The monster has a middle with a quiet place. She sits on the bare ground and looks up at the towering vortex around her. A rain of debris patters down. There is a deep rumble,
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Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.
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Greg Kinnear
American Actor
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.
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Danielle Fishel
American Actress
It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.
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Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.
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Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
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.
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Nick Kroll
American Actor
I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.
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Ezra Pound
American Poet
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Kevin Costner
American Actor
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
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Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.
Quote examples
Greg Kinnear
American Actor
I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.
Quote examples
Danielle Fishel
American Actress
It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.
Quote examples
Rush Limbaugh
American Entertainer
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.
Quote examples
Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to face the grief of losing her, because she was somebody I loved more than anybody else in the world.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
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.
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Nick Kroll
American Actor
I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks.
Quote examples
Ezra Pound
American Poet
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Quote examples
Ian Somerhalder
American Actor
There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Kevin Costner
American Actor
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
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