Usually means: Rotating flow around a core.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word vortex:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. vortex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vortex: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vortex: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vortex: Vocabulary.com
  5. Vortex, vortex: Wordnik
  6. vortex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vortex: Wiktionary
  8. vortex: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vortex: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vortex: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vortex: Dictionary.com
  12. vortex: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. vortex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Vortex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. vortex: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. vortex: Rhymezone
  18. vortex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. vortex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. VORTEX: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. vortex: Free Dictionary
  22. vortex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vortex: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. vortex: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. vortex: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. vortex: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vortex: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. vortex: Sound Alike Words
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. vortex: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VORTEX: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vortex: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Vortex: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Vortex, vortex: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vortexes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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

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