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Vorticial vs Vortical - What's the difference?

vorticial | vortical |

As adjectives the difference between vorticial and vortical

is that vorticial is pertaining to a vortex while vortical is of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.

vorticial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to 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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