VORTEX
\vˈɔːtɛks], \vˈɔːtɛks], \v_ˈɔː_t_ɛ_k_s]\
Definitions of VORTEX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
By Oddity Software
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A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
By Noah Webster.
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Air or water with a circular current tending to suck bodies caught in it into a depression, or vacuum, at the center; an eddy or whirlpool.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The whorl of muscular fibers at the apex of the heart, v. cordis. 2. One of the stellar figures on the surface of the crystalline lens of the eye.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A whirling motion of a fluid forming a cavity in the centre: a whirlpool: a whirlwind:-pl. VORTICES.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
