vortex 的定义
plural vor·tex·es, vor·ti·ces [vawr-tuh-seez]. /ˈvɔr təˌsiz/.
- a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
- a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado.See also polar vortex.
- a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
- a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
- something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it: the vortex of war.
- a rapid rotatory movement of cosmic matter about a center, regarded as accounting for the origin or phenomena of bodies or systems of bodies in space.
vortex 近义词
circular current
whirlpool
vortex 的近义词 4 个
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- Yet such a conservation law would be immensely useful to meteorologists and others who deal with vortices — that same wide spectrum of researchers who deal with turbulence.
- Making a tornado-like vortex in water is easy — anyone can do it with a soda bottle.
- Doing so would be crucial to settling long-standing questions about a fundamental property of vortices called helicity.
- The most prominent breakthrough involves proving a fundamental new law governing the tornado-like tubes of currents known as vortices.
- It’s like building the plane as you’re trying to fly it in gale-force winds of a pandemic vortex.
- Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”
- Yet not everyone is caught up this vortex of paralysis and resentment.
- She would leave every day of shooting during the polar vortex just grinning from ear-to-ear.
- No, that would be Baia, a popular Roman resort once described by Seneca the Younger as a “vortex of luxury” (sign me up).
- Undeterred by the crippling polar vortex that's left heaps of snow lying unceremoniously at every turn.
- With a gasp she felt herself falling straight down through a swirling vortex of sensation, to the very sand-bed of the stream.
- He had now come to the verge of the whirlpool of destruction, and, in a frenzied moment, he threw himself into the awful vortex!
- "She dies in a flurry," said Tom, casting his eyes at the little vortex into which the boat was then entering.
- It was a narrow, sharp rock, that jutted out about two feet from the bank, quite close to the vortex of the whirlpool.
- Up from the horizon they would mount, forming a vortex overhead, soundless within the silence of the ether.