Usually means: Swirling centers of rotational motion.
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  1. vortexes: Merriam-Webster
  2. vortexes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vortexes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vortexes: Vocabulary.com
  5. vortexes: Wordnik
  6. vortexes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vortexes: Wiktionary
  8. vortexes: Dictionary.com
  9. vortexes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Vortexes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Vortexes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Vortexes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. vortexes: FreeDictionary.org
  14. vortexes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. vortexes: Encyclopedia

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  1. vortexes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See vortex as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vortex)

noun:  A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
verb:  (chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer
▸ Also see vortex


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