vortex

Meaning of vortex

noun
  1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  2. Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
    2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
  3. Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  4. 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.
  5. Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Information about vortex

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of vortex is: vortexes.
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Hyphenation of vortex

vor-tex

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • vortex is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

vortex synonyms

Meaning whirl:

whirl, swirl, convolution

Meaning whirlpool:

whirlpool, maelstrom

Translation of vortex

Words that rhyme with vortex

Artex, Startex, aertex, intertex, submentovertex, vertex, Fortex, cerebellocortex, cortex, endocortex, isocortex, mesocortex, neocortex, paleocortex, paracortex, pseudocortex, subcortex, antivortex

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