Defn: Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
Defn: The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.
Physics) Defn: An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.
A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms) can be mathematically deduced.
She was plainly not a part of the vortex that surrounded her.
He has not expelled him; but I fancied this, on account of this Vortex here.
There is not, no; for Vortex reigns having expelled Jupiter.
It had escaped my notice that Jupiter did not exist, and that Vortex now reigned in his stead.
And now the tumult began again in my mind, revolving around the vortex of a new centre of difficulty.
I felt like one under a spell, or in an endless dream; but gladly would I have walked on for ever in hope, with that silken vortex of sound following me.
During the vortex of a London season, he added to the list of his friends a merchant of considerable standing, and of very large reputed wealth.
It has plunged me into the very vortex of this ghastly affair.
But I had seen no more of Deeping nor had I heard from him, when abruptly I found myself plunged again into the very vortex of his troubled affairs.
There must be two regular tides," he said, "only they're lost in the far larger flux and reflux caused by the vortex we escaped from.
They decided the way might still be open past the Great Vortex and through the long cleft, whereby our distant fathers came.
But she was driving in a direction that would carry her right into the track of the vortex of the storm, to encounter which, in her wrecked and helpless condition, would infallibly mean her destruction.
Happily, there were two boats disengaged, so that they were able very promptly to rescue the sufferers from their perilous position in the boiling vortex of foam by which they were surrounded.
All hands stood motionless, with eyes fixed in horrible fascination upon the indescribable vortex to which they were being irresistibly driven.
Illumined by that startling radiance, our staunch and seaworthy ship was tossed and twirled in the hideous vortex of mad sea until her motion was distracting.
And church and state pause in this made vortex of chaos to prate of the ills of pugilism; to legislate and perorate anent bloodless boxing bouts; to prosecute a brace of harmless pugs.
A straw has been known to penetrate the body of a tree endwise by the extreme velocity imparted to it when carried in the vortex of a tornado.
His rank was discovered; attentions which he was obliged to return, etiquettes for which he was indebted to his rank, drew him imperceptibly within the vortex of the great world.
With the sincerest sorrow did we behold him treading this dangerous path, but in the vortex in which he was involved the feeble voice of friendship was no longer heard, and he was too much intoxicated to understand it.
The patient is well, thrown once more in the busy vortex of business or of pleasure.
All are ingulfed in that vortex which Beccher has called the "circulus aeterni motus" Metempsychosis was simply an illustration of this fact recognised in all ages in the East, and taught in European schools by Pythagoras.
Moreover, he proposes to raise the power by making the gas cool at one part of the surface faster than at another, and so to make a vortex around that spot, which would set the whole mass to revolving.
A vortex will never make, nor allow to exist beyond its center, planets heavier than the fluid of which it is composed.
Miss Belton was one of those ambiguous ladies who sometimes drift out from the metropolitan vortex and circle restfully in backwaters for varying periods, appearing and disappearing irrelevantly.
Now that the question no longer circles in the actual vortex of Elgin politics Mr Octavius Milburn's attitude toward the conditions of imperial connection has become almost as mellow as ever.
Greek frivolity and extravagance drew their imitators rapidly into a vortex of dissipation.
Then appeared his son, the great Alexander, who was destined to remodel entirely the relations of the various countries, and to draw the peaceful inhabitants of Judaea into the vortex of the great world conflicts.
A kind of vortex is formed, and there is a constant and powerful indraught through the funnels.
But he was too lofty, and he proceeded with peculiar haste to assure himself that his career was ruined for ever "by thevortex of circumstance.
But Stepan Trofimovitch's activity ceased almost at the moment it began, owing, so to say, to a "vortex of combined circumstances.
It is a vortex that will suit my disposition well.
The moment I became possessed of that wealth, I plunged headlong into the vortex of pleasure.
