Crossword clues for vortexes
vortexes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vortex \Vor"tex\, n.; pl. E. Vortexes, L. Vortices. [L. vortex, vertex, -icis, fr. vortere, vertere, to turn. See Vertex.]
A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
(Cartesian System) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Vortex atom (Chem.), a hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion. It was conveniently regarded in certain early mathematical models as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom, but is no longer considered a useful model, having been superseded by quantum mechanics.
Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.
Wiktionary
alt. (plural of vortex English) n. (plural of vortex English)
Usage examples of "vortexes".
There were seven more vortexes listed, and a big "x" marking the cow in the lower right corner of the map.
From the looks of it, we could go any of a dozen different ways, through different points labeled vortexes, taking different lines.
Sitting on her porch for the entire weekend, rocking in a wicker chair, and contemplating the vortexes of the universe wasn't gonna cut it, either.
Nevertheless, even after they had passed the charred land and could no longer smell the scorched brush, Holly had an image in her mind of the huge valley at night, aflame from end to end, vortexes of red-orange-white fire whirling like tornadoes and consuming everything that lay between the ramparts of the two mountain ranges.
The currents that produced the aurora led back to the Sun, where the rotating vortexes that appear as sunspots act as generators in the Sun's magnetic field, accelerating plasma particles outward in flares and prominences that can cause displays extending for hundreds of thousands of miles above the surface.
An area in which opposed energies created dangerous vortexes and regions in which matter itself could cease to exist.
There was no way that my flimsy parasail could withstand even a close miss by one of these vortexes -- and there was no way that the funnels were going to miss me.