different between vortical vs vortically

English

Etymology

From (the stem of) Latin vortex +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v??t?k(?)l/

Adjective

vortical (comparative more vortical, superlative most vortical)

1. Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex. [from 17th c.]
   • 1888, Alexander Winchell, World-life: or, Comparative Geology, part II:

     He assumed, in brief, that infinite space is filled with infinite matter; that matter was originally in a chaotic, formless condition; that the cosmical bodies arose at first from vortical motions in the original mass.

   • 1968, "Orpheus Now", Time, 20 Dec 1968:

     The book's owner, Maurice Conchis (Anthony Quinn) befriends Urfe and brings him into his vortical universe.

   • 2002, David De Young, The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources, page 174:

     In many cases, examination of the flow fields in greater detail reveals a more vortical or turbulent flow around the collimated core.

   • 2005, Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Experiments 6, page 187:

     Motion around the eddy is called vortical, and motion along the axis is called jetal.

Synonyms

• (containing vortices): turbulent (of fluid flow)

Translations

Anagrams

• Victrola, victrola

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.