Word Meanings - VORTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion. -- Vor"ti*cal*ly, adv.

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• WHIRLBONE
  The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• WHIRLWIND
  1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• WHIRLBAT
  Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers. The whirlbat and the rapid race shall be Reserved for Cæsar. Dryden.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• VORTEX RING
  A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axis disposed in circular form, attains a more or less distinct separation from the surrounding medium and has many of the properties of a solid.
• WHIRLIGIG
  Any one of numerous species of beetles belonging to Gyrinus and allied genera. The body is firm, oval or boatlike in form, and usually dark colored with a bronzelike luster. These beetles live mostly on the surface of water, and move about with
• MOTIONLESS
  Without motion; being at rest.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• WHIRL-BLAST
  A whirling blast or wind. A whirl-blast from behind the hill. Wordsworth.
• VORTEX FILAMENT
  A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• WHIRLPOOL
  1. An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular
• WHIRLPIT
  A whirlpool. "Raging whirlpits." Sandys.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• VORTEX
  A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the
• MOTION
  1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.
• VORTEX LINE
  A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• IDEO-MOTION
  An ideo-motor movement.
• WHIRL
  hvirvle; akin to D. wervelen, G. wirbeln, freq. of the verb seen in 1. To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve. He whirls his sword around without delay. Dryden. 2. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with,
• UPWHIRL
  To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.
• PREMOTION
  Previous motion or excitement to action.
• ELECTRO-MOTION
  The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.