vortex
vortex
pyörre
Liittyvät sanat: swirl
Synonyymisanakirja
vortex
virta, kierrevirta, pyörrevirta, kurimus, syöveri, akanvirta, vesipyörre, pyörre, Kharybdis, pyöreä muoto, pyörähdys, kierre, kiemura.
Englannin sanakirja
vortex (englanti > suomi)
vortex englanniksi
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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puhekieltä Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
puhekieltä Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
1826, Mary Shelley, w The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1
puhekieltä 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.
puhekieltä Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.