English-Thai Dictionary

vortex

N กระแสลม หรือ กระแสน้ำ ที่ หมุน วน  kra-sea-lom-rue-kra-sea-nam-ti-muan-won

 

vortex

N ความรู้สึก หรือ สถานการณ์ ที่ มีอิทธิพล มาก  kwam-ru-suek-rue-sa-ta-na-kan-ti-me-am-nad-mak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VORTEX

n.plu. vortices or vortexes. [L. from verto.] 1. A whirlpool; a whirling or circular motion of water, forming a kind of cavity in the center of the circle, and in some instances, drawing in water or absorbing other things.
2. A whirling of the air; a whirlwind.
3. In the Cartesian system, the circular motion originally impressed on the particles of matter, carrying them around their own axes, and around a common center. By means of these vortices. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VORTEX

Vor "tex, n.; pl. E. Vortexes, L. Vortices. Etym: [L. vortex, vertex, -icis, fr. vortere, vertere, to turn. See Vertex. ]

 

1. A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.

 

2. (Cartesian System )

 

Defn: 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 bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.

 

3. (Zoöl.)

 

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix. Vortex atom (Chem. ), a hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion. It is conveniently regarded in certain mathematical speculations as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom. -- Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.

 

VORTEX FILAMENT

VORTEX FILAMENT Vor "tex fil "a *ment.

 

Defn: A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.

 

VORTEX FRINGE

VORTEX FRINGE Vor "tex fringe.

 

Defn: The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.

 

VORTEX LINE

VORTEX LINE Vortex line.

 

Defn: A line, within a rotating fluid, whose tangent at every point is the instantaneous axis of rotation as that point of the fluid.

 

VORTEX RING

VORTEX RING Vortex ring. (Physics )

 

Defn: 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.

 

VORTEX THEORY

VORTEX THEORY Vortex theory. (Chem. & Physics )

 

Defn: The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin ) 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. Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms ) can be mathematically deduced.

 

VORTEX TUBE

VORTEX TUBE Vortex tube. (Physics )

 

Defn: An imaginary tube within a rotating fluid, formed by drawing the vortex lines through all points of a closed curve.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

vortex

vor tex |ˈvôrˌteks ˈvɔrˌtɛks | ▶noun ( pl. vortexes or vortices |-təˌsēz | ) a mass of whirling fluid or air, esp. a whirlpool or whirlwind: we were caught in a vortex of water | figurative : a swirling vortex of emotions. something regarded as a whirling mass: the vortex of existence. DERIVATIVES vor ti cal |ˈvôrtikəl |adjective, vor ti cal ly |ˈvôrtik (ə )lē |adverb, vor tic i ty |vôrˈtisitē |noun, vor ti cose |ˈvôrtəˌkōs |adjective, vor tic u lar |vôrˈtikyələr |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin vortex, vortic-, literally ‘eddy, ’ variant of vertex .

 

Oxford Dictionary

vortex

vortex |ˈvɔːtɛks | ▶noun ( pl. vortexes or vortices |-tɪsiːz | ) a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind: we were caught in a vortex of water | figurative : a swirling vortex of emotions. DERIVATIVES vortical adjective, vortically adverb, vorticity |vɔːˈtɪsɪti |noun, vorticose adjective, vorticular |vɔːˈtɪkjʊlə |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin vortex, vortic-, literally ‘eddy ’, variant of vertex .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

vortex

vortex noun a whirling vortex of smoke: whirlwind, cyclone, whirlpool, gyre, maelstrom, eddy, swirl, spiral; black hole.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

vortex

vortex noun a whirling vortex of buff-coloured smoke: whirlwind, whirlpool, gyre, maelstrom, eddy, swirl, swirling, countercurrent, counterflow; literary Charybdis.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

vortex

vor tex /vɔ́ː r teks /名詞 複 ～es, vortices /vɔ́ː r tɪsìːz /C 1 (水などの )渦, 渦巻き ; 旋風, つむじ風 .2 ｟文 ｠〖the ～〗(戦争 論争 社会運動などの )渦 ▸ be drawn into the vortex of war 戦乱の渦に巻き込まれる