·add. ·- An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.
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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A whirlwind, or sudden, rapid, or violent motion of air or water in gyres or circles. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A <<Telescope>>. II. Tube ·noun One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. III. Tube ·vt To fu...
·add. ·- A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section. ...
·add. ·- The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; — so called because...
·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...
·- A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a ...
·- A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, w...
·add. ·- A Crookes tube. II. Hittorf tube ·add. ·- A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic elec...
·add. ·- A tube for producing Lenard rays. ...
·- A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under wate...
·add. ·- Crookes tube. II. Plucker tube ·add. ·- A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which...
·add. ·- A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a sm...
·adj Belonging to the Tubinares. II. Tube-nosed ·adj Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of h...
·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. ...
·add. ·- Any tube for passing or holding water; specif., in some steam boilers, a tube in which wate...
The means of firing a gun most in favour at present in the British service; ignition is caused by th...
·add. ·- A vacuum tube suitable for producing Rontgen rays. ...