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VORTEX
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Irregular inflected form: vortices
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vortex" is a kind of...):
current; stream (a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vortex"):
Charybdis ((Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The shape of something rotating rapidly
Synonyms:
convolution; swirl; vortex; whirl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("vortex" is a kind of...):
round shape (a shape that is curved and without sharp angles)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb vortex
Context examples:
We have no evidence of how these vortices are formed or how fast they rotate.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
The edges of this newly-found vortex appear to be hexagonal, precisely matching a famous and bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern we see deeper down in Saturn's atmosphere.
(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)
The Hubble observations show that as early as 2016, increased cloud activity in the region preceded the vortex's appearance.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
The new data enabled the team to create a higher-quality map of the vortex and its surroundings.
(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)
Winter is taking a grip on Titan's southern hemisphere, and a strong, whirling atmospheric circulation pattern — a vortex — has developed in the upper atmosphere over the south pole.
(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and 'fall into a vortex', as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The vortex should be free to change traffic lanes and cruise anywhere in between the jets.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
The spacecraft spied a broad, warm high-altitude vortex at Saturn's southern pole but none at the planet's northern pole.
(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)
Appearing during the planet's southern summer, the feature is the fourth and latest mysterious dark vortex captured by Hubble since 1993.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
By viewing the vortex a second time, the new Hubble images confirm that OPAL really detected a long-lived feature.
(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)
