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UK
/vˈɔːtɛks/
]
[ US /ˈvɔɹtɛks/ ]
[ US /ˈvɔɹtɛks/ ]
NOUN
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
How To Use vortex In A Sentence
- He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
- My favorite load for turkeys is Beman ICS Hunter arrows fletched with Bonning Blazer vanes and tipped with Vortex Pro-Series 100 grain 2.25 broadheads. Which load do you use for turkey
- The results show that, as fluid passes through each rib, a trumpet-shaped vortex is generated from the upstream vertex of the rib, shaping a region with high value of heat transfer coefficient (HTC).
- Whenever we come together in celebration - sacred or secular - we bring into focus a vortex of energy that renews both us and the place.
- But the vortex fills as he nears its inner circle.
- But these sites also operate in a more catch-as-catch-can fashion, relying largely on what is either sent to them by other writers or they themselves can snag from the information vortex.
- From saving a fawn from a yote to a vortex that picks hay up and spins it 100 feet in the air. Warming-gate
- There is nothing corresponding to a thermostat in a stable physical system such as a vortex.
- Although combination of these two vortices results in very large lift force this second vortex could not be detected in the airflow visualization since they only released smoke from the leading edge over the inner half of the forewing.
- Generally, the fish should not produce and use such vortex motion any more than a sailor should advance by blowing on a sail.