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▸ 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
Similar:
maelstrom,
whirlpool,
convolution,
swirl,
whirl,
vortice,
whirlwind,
turbillion,
whirlstorm,
whirlimixer,
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dust devil,
whirlpool,
tornado,
hurricane,
water spout,
fire whirl,
atmospheric vortex,
mesocyclone,
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