Definitions for vortices

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vortices vor·ti·ces

Spelling: [vawr-tuh-seez]

IPA: /ˈvɔr təˌsiz/

Vortices is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 389 anagrams from letters in vortices (ceiorstv).

Definitions for vortices

noun

1. a plural of vortex.
2. a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
3. a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado. See also polar vortex.
4. a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
5. a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
6. something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it:
7. (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 vortices

1645-55; Latin, variant of vertex vertex

Examples for vortices

That there are also vortices along the frontal line of roots, or near this line.

Did not Descartes construct the universe with cubes and vortices?

"Phlogiston" and "vortices" had their day and are forgotten.

The vortices, as Descartes imagined them, are not now believed in.

Fifty-eight of those atrocious Dilipic vortices had been driven to ground.

After all it's only another example of Kelvin's theory of vortices.

vortices may be called an occult quality, because their existence was never proved.

Let us try if we can reconcile these facts with the theory of vortices.

Tornadoes and mighty cyclones and vortices torned and cycled vorted.

Possibly, gravity does part of the work, and the vortices of Descartes interfere with it.