Polar vs Vortical - What's the difference?

polar | vortical |

As a noun polar

is .

As an adjective vortical is

of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.

polar

English

Adjective

(-)

of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole)

of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles

(chemistry) having a dipole; ionic

(mathematics) of a coordinate system, specifying the location of a point in a plane by using a radius and an angle

(linguistics, of a question) Having but two possible answers, yes'' and ''no .

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vortical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.

* 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)