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"Vortex" Definition

noun

A place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that surrounds it: "As happened with so many theater actors, he was swept up in the vortex of Hollywood” ( New York Times).
A spiral motion of fluid within a limited area, especially a whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it toward its center.
Something that resembles a whirlpool.
A mass of fluid (as a liquid) with a whirling or circular motion that tends to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle and to draw toward this cavity or vacuum bodies subject to its action.
A region within a body of fluid in which the fluid elements have an angular velocity.

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