Look up: Vortex

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   Vortex
   A rotating motion in a parcel of air. Can be seen as 'whisps' of air coming from the top, outer edge of the rear wing in humid conditions
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   Vortex
   Any flow possessing vorticity.Specifically a flow with closed streamlines or the idealized case in which all vorticity is concentrated in a vortex filament.
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   Vortex
   A fluid in rotational motion, such as a whirlpool.
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   vortex
   spiral motion of a fluid resulting in a radial pressure gradient,the trajectories are curves which encircle a single line(axis) Category: Physics • The centre of the spiral cloud and wind movement of a cyclone,hurricane or typhoon,usually called the eye Category: Management in the public and private sector
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   Vortex
   Definition (keystage 3) A way that liquids or gases can flow, in which they rotate and move up or down at the same time. Like a tornado, or the way water flows down a bath's plughole.
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   Vortex
   Vor'tex noun ; plural English Vortexes , Latin Vortices . [ Latin vortex , vertex , -icis , from vortere , vertere , to turn. See Vertex .] 1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies s ...
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   vortex
   Origin: L. Vortex, vertex, -icis, fr. Vortere, vertere, to turn. See Vertex. ... 1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an e ...
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   Vortex
   A `vortex` (pl. `vortices`) is a spinning, often turbulent, flow of fluid. Any spiral motion with closed streamlines is vortex flow. The motion of the fluid swirling rapidly around a center is called a vortex. The speed and rate of rotation of the fluid are greatest at the center, and decrease progressively with distance from the center.
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   VORTEX
   `Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment` or `VORTEX`, is a field project that seeks to understand how a tornado is produced by deploying around 18 vehicles that are equipped with customized instruments used to measure and analyze the weather around a tornado. The project has also stated that it is interested in why some supercells produce tornadoes while others do not. The original project took place in 1994 and 1995, and...
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    vortex
    (vor´teks) a whorled or spiral arrangement or pattern, as of muscle fibers, or of the ridges or hairs of the skin.
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    Vortex
    • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. • (n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; th...
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    vortex
    (from the article `whirlpool`) rotary oceanic current, a large-scale eddy that is produced by the interaction of rising and falling tides. Similar currents that exhibit a central ... ...critical velocity; they represent a flow of fluid into the space behind the obstacle, and this inflow begins only when the general flow is fast ... ....
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    Vortex
    A rapid spiraling motion of air or liquid around a center of rotation.
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    vortex
    
    1. the shape of something rotating rapidly
    2. a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides)
    
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    VORTEX
    Any circular or rotary flow in the atmosphere that possesses vorticity.
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    vortex
    vortex (vôr'teks) , mass of fluid in whirling or rotary motion. To simplify the analysis, vortex motion usually describes motions in a frictionless fluid. In such cases the absence of friction would make it impossible to create or to destroy vortex motion. Motion in such a fluid would be a...
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