Usually means: Rotating flow around a core.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. vortex: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vortex: Merriam-Webster
  3. vortex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vortex: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vortex: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vortex, vortex: Wordnik
  7. vortex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vortex: Wiktionary
  9. vortex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vortex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vortex: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vortex: Dictionary.com
  13. vortex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vortex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vortex (film), The Vortex (novel), The Vortex, Vortex (Bond and Larkin novel), Vortex (Calaway Park), Vortex (California's Great America), Vortex (Canada's Wonderland), Vortex (Carowinds), Vortex (Great America), Vortex (ISP), Vortex (Kings Island), Vortex (PC game), Vortex (Star Wars novel), Vortex (The Gazette song), Vortex (Thorpe Park), Vortex (Wilson novel), Vortex (album), Vortex (disambiguation), Vortex (iPod game), Vortex (physics engine), Vortex (roller coaster), Vortex (sailboat), Vortex (satellite), Vortex (software), Vortex (video game), Vortex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vortex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vortex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vortex: Rhymezone
  19. vortex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vortex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. VORTEX: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. vortex: FreeDictionary.org
  23. vortex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. vortex: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. vortex: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. vortex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vortex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vortex: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. vortex: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. vortex: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VORTEX: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vortex: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Vortex: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Vortex, vortex: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vortexes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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

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