different between vortex vs vortically

English

Etymology

From Latin vortex.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v??t?ks/
• (US)

Noun

vortex (plural vortexes or vortices)

1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
2. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
   • 2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38
3. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 2, chapter 1

     In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.

4. (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
5. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vortical
• vorticity

Translations

See also

• eddy
• ley line
• maelstrom

References

• vortex in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vortex in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Latin vortex

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.t?ks/

Noun

vortex m (uncountable)

1. vortex

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?or.teks/, [?u??rt??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vor.teks/, [?v?rt??ks]

Noun

vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension

1. Archaic form of vertex.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• vortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

vortical +? -ly

Adverb

vortically (not comparable)

1. In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.
   • 1945, Alexander Hopkins McDannald (editor), The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 14, page 567,

     It is possible that fluid may circulate in a region either vortically or non-vortically.

   • 1990, David A. Clarke, An Overview of Computational MHD Jets and Their Comparisons with Recent High Resolution Radio Images, R. Beck, P. P. Kronberg, R. Wielebinski, Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 140, page 406,

     This results when a small region, whose magnetic field is grossly amplified by vortically induced shear, is spun about the symmetry axis.

   • 2009, Marilyn Jager Adams, 8: The Challenge of Advanced Texts: The Interdepenednce of Reading and Learning, Elfrieda H. Hiebert (editor), Reading More, Reading Better, page 182,

     In terms of literacy growth, it is a solution that is vortically self-propagating and self-defeating, for it is a solution that denies students the very language, information, and modes of thought that they need most in order to move up and on.