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vortical | vortically |

As an adjective vortical

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

As an adverb vortically is

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

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)

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    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.