VORTEXES
18
Scrabble
19
WWF
V(4) O(1) R(1) T(1) E(1) X(8) E(1) S(1)
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Definition
noun
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- 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”
- Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- 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.
- Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
Source: Wiktionary
