ALL meanings of vortex
vor·tex
V v - noun plural vortex a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool. 1
- noun plural vortex a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado. See also polar vortex. 1
- noun plural vortex a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc. 1
- noun plural vortex a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc. 1
- noun plural vortex something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it: the vortex of war. 1
- noun plural vortex (in Cartesian philosophy) a rapid rotatory movement of cosmic matter about a center, regarded as accounting for the origin or phenomena of bodies or systems of bodies in space. 1
- noun vortex A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. 0
- noun vortex (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre. 0
- noun vortex (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current. 0
- noun vortex (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. 0
- noun vortex (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. 0
- countable noun vortex A vortex is a mass of wind or water that spins round so fast that it pulls objects down into its empty centre. 0
- countable noun vortex If you refer to a situation as a vortex, you feel that you are being forced into it without being able to prevent it. 0
- noun vortex a whirling mass or rotary motion in a liquid, gas, flame, etc, such as the spiralling movement of water around a whirlpool 0
- noun vortex any activity, situation, or way of life regarded as irresistibly engulfing 0
- noun vortex a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at its center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn; whirlpool 0
- noun vortex a whirl or powerful eddy of air; whirlwind 0
- noun vortex any activity, situation, or state of affairs that resembles a whirl or eddy in its rush, absorbing effect, catastrophic power, etc. 0