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单词 vortex
释义 vortex
 /vawr"teks/,  n.  ,  pl.   vortexes, vortices /-teuh seez'/.
  1. a whirling mass of water, esp. one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
  2. a whirling mass of air, esp. one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado.
  3. a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
  4. a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
  5. something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it: the vortex of war.
  6. (in Cartesian philosophy) 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.
 [1645-55; < L, var. of vertex VERTEX]
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