vortical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a vortex.
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suggesting or resembling a vortex.
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moving in a vortex.
Other Word Forms
- vortically adverb
Etymology
Origin of vortical
Example Sentences
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“A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in,” she writes.
From The New Yorker
The tallest peak in Indonesia, Tambora exploded in April 1815, consuming whole villages in “a vortical hell of flames, ash, boiling magma and hurricane-strength winds.”
From Washington Post
But if the current of their conversation had been vortical and crowded, the outcome was perfectly clear.
From Project Gutenberg
This return will then take the form of violent storms of wind, usually of a cyclonic nature, and affording direct evidence of the tendency of the air masses to pursue vortical paths in their movement towards lower levels.
From Project Gutenberg
On the contrary, they may and do move both towards the poles and downwards by circuitous and even vortical paths.
From Project Gutenberg
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