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vortical, a. and n.|ˈvɔːtɪkəl|
[f. L. vortic-, vortex vortex + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. Of motion: Like that of a vortex; rotating, eddying, whirling.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 191 The Matter being coagulated..and set upon Vortical Motion, Light dawned out in infinite parts of the World. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 226 This universal attraction or gravitation is..not a magnetical power, nor the effect of a vortical motion; those common attempts toward the explication of gravity. 1746Phil. Trans. XLIV. 43, I have never been able to discern that vortical Motion, by which this Effect was said to be brought about. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 316 Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet,..had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature. 1881G. Macdonald Mary Marston II. ii. 10 She made a sudden vortical gyration, and walked from the vile place. 1882Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 155 Twice the product of the area of the curve and the vortical spin inside it.
2. Moving in a vortex; whirling round.
1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 231 The vortical fluid, by which he explains the motion of the planets. 1792D. Lloyd Voy. Life 23 Till all their brain is vortical;—and wreck'd They sink o'erladen with anxiety. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 165 Vibrating cilia..are more developed on these organs, which are only pushed out at the will of the little animal, when they form strong vortical currents.
B. n. A vortical motion.
1864Athenæum 8 Oct. 465/2 The summary of the author's theories is:—..That the magnetic vortical can be excited by means of spiral currents of electricity generally.
Hence ˈvortically adv., in a vortical manner.
1872Proctor Ess. Astron. xix. 230 If meteoric matter came in vortically around the equatorial parts of the sun. 1882Minchin Unipl. Kinemat. 183 Energy of Vortically moving Liquid. |