·add. ·- The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air;
— so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.
·vt To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. II. Fringe ·noun The peristome or fring...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
vortex, vortĭcōsus, vorto, etc., v. vert-. ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
·noun Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. ·see I...
A whirlwind, or sudden, rapid, or violent motion of air or water in gyres or circles. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clust...
·add. ·- A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section. ...
·add. ·- A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of ...
·add. ·- A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axi...
·add. ·- The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, t...
·add. ·- An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all p...