vortex

vortex
Synonyms and related words:
Charybdis, Maelstrom, ado, agitation, back stream, backflow, backwash, backwater, bother, botheration, brouhaha, burst, bustle, cirrus, coil, commotion, condensation trail, contrail, corkscrew, countercurrent, counterflow, counterflux, curl, curlicue, disturbance, dizzy round, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, evolute, exhaust, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fidgetiness, fit, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, fume, fuss, fussiness, gulf, gurge, gyre, helix, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, involute, kink, maelstrom, pell-mell, perturbation, pirouette, pother, rat race, reel, refluence, reflux, regurgitation, restlessness, ringlet, roll, round, ruffle, scramble, screw, scroll, spasm, spin, spiral, spout, spurt, stew, stir, stream, surge, sweat, swirl, swirling, tendril, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turn, twirl, twist, unquiet, uproar, vapor trail, volute, volution, wake, wash, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl, yeastiness

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • VORTEX — En mécanique des fluides, on appelle vortex un type de tourbillon dans lequel la vitesse des particules du fluide en chaque point est inversement proportionnelle à la distance entre le point et le centre du tourbillon. Un tel tourbillon est… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Vortex — bezeichnet in der Strömungslehre ein Synonym für Wirbel, siehe Wirbel (Strömungslehre) in der Teichfiltertechnik eine mechanische Reinigungskammer, in der sich durch Schwerkraft größere Partikel absetzen und ausgefiltert werden können in der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Vortex — Vor tex, n.; pl. E. {Vortexes}, L. {Vortices}. [L. vortex, vertex, icis, fr. vortere, vertere, to turn. See {Vertex}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Vortex — (англ.)  вихрь, круговорот: Музыка Arida Vortex  московская пауэр метал группа. ICS Vortex VORTEX the GazettE single Игры Vortex Software  британская компания, разработчик видеоигр. Техника Vortex86  процессор …   Википедия

  • vortex — vórtex s. n. Trimis de siveco, 24.09.2005. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  vórtex s. n. 1. Structură anatomică (muşchi, peri) dispusă în vârtej. 2. Vârtej cu antrenare de aer, care apare la aspiraţia apei dintr un bazin. (‹ fr., lat. vortex).… …   Dicționar Român

  • vortex — efecto de remolino producido por el giro de una masa de fluido más o menos cilíndrica. Aparato de laboratorio para homogeneizar muestras Diccionario ilustrado de Términos Médicos.. Alvaro Galiano. 2010. vórtex Efecto de remolino producid …   Diccionario médico

  • vortex — 1650s, whirlpool, eddying mass, from L. vortex, variant of vertex an eddy of water, wind, or flame; whirlpool; whirlwind, from stem of vertere to turn (see VERSUS (Cf. versus)). Plural form is vortices. Became prominent in 17c. theories of… …   Etymology dictionary

  • vortex — [vôr′teks΄] n. pl. vortexes or vortices [vôr′tə sēz΄] [L vortex, var. of vertex: see VERTEX] 1. a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at its center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn; whirlpool 2. a whirl or powerful eddy of… …   English World dictionary

  • Vortex — (lat.), 1) so v.w. Vertex; 2) Wirbel, Strudel, Knäuel; V. cartesianus, Cartesianischer Wirbel, s.d.; 3) V. purulentus, Eiterstock …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • vortex — *eddy, whirlpool, maelstrom …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • vortex — has the plural form vortexes in general use, but vortices (pronounced vaw ti seez) in technical contexts …   Modern English usage

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