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Vortices

/ˈvɔː.tɪ.siːz/

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

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noun
  1. 1

    A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

  2. 2

    Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

    "2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38"

  3. 3

    Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

  4. 4

    A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

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