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vortices

NOUN

circular current

Synonyms

STRONGEST

spiral whirlpool whirlwind

STRONG

cyclone eddy gyre tornado twister waterspout whirl

WEAK

tourbillion

NOUN

whirlpool

Synonyms

STRONGEST

whirlwind

STRONG

eddy waterspout

WEAK

tourbillion

Example Sentences

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All measurements of the magnetic vortices and analysis of data from multiple instruments were carried out using the Labmule program developed at HZDR, which is available as a lab automation tool.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

Magnetic vortices form in ultrathin disks made of materials like nickel-iron, often just micrometers or even nanometers in size.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

These vortices can point in two opposite directions while producing neither net magnetization nor net electric polarization.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

Instead of relying on magnetic or electric polarization states, these materials contain vortices of electric dipoles.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2025

All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin