Definitions for vortex

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vortex vor·tex

Spelling: [vawr-teks]

IPA: /ˈvɔr tɛks/

Vortex is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in vortex (eortvx).

Definitions for vortex

noun

1. a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
2. a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado. See also polar vortex.
3. a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
4. a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
5. something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it:
6. (in Cartesian philosophy) a rapid rotatory movement of cosmic matter about a center, regarded as accounting for the origin or phenomena of bodies or systems of bodies in space.

Origin of vortex

1645-55; Latin, variant of vertex vertex

Examples for vortex

By the time a defense can be mounted, the vortex has already done its damage.

In the vortex of the eddy the delusion of the vast cone was more pronounced.

Except for a few storm chasers, who rushed straight toward the vortex.

Since last year, Greece has been sucked into a vortex by the debt woes that are now threatening the very foundations of the euro.

We stand on the edge of the vortex, now will we plunge down.

We had reached the middle and were right in the vortex, when suddenly she reeled in her saddle.

Yet not everyone is caught up this vortex of paralysis and resentment.

Swallowed in the vortex of lower-class life of Paris—dead, probably.

I was partly dragged, partly I went to a certain extent of my own will, into this vortex.

No, that would be Baia, a popular Roman resort once described by Seneca the Younger as a “vortex of luxury” (sign me up).