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Vortex vs Vortically - What's the difference?

vortex | vortically |

As a noun vortex

is a whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

As an adverb vortically is

in a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.

vortex

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex'''''. The ' vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
  • (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
  • (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
  • (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.
  • (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

    • Quotations

    2004': the consumer '''vortex that is East Hampton — ''The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38

    Related terms

    * vortical * vorticity

    See also

    * eddy * ley line * maelstrom

    References

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    vortically

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.
  • * 1945 , Alexander Hopkins McDannald (editor), , 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.