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vortex

[vawr-teks] / ˈvɔr tɛks /
NOUN
whirling mass of water
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Another goal is to decrease the use of hazardous chemicals and reduce the size and energy demand of hardware by applying advanced predictive technologies for high-power vortices.

From Science Daily

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

From Science Daily

And that fans can get swept up in a vortex of venom that justifies, reinforces, and ramps up their heat-of-the-moment bitterness.

From Seattle Times

It had to be a vortex, with many stories, memories and pieces of memories.

From Salon

Calm skies must also prevail because crosscutting winds called shear can rip holes in a nascent hurricane’s vortex.

From Scientific American