vortex

vortex is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 17 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
4. noun. a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

   Synonyms: maelstrom, whirlpool

5. noun. the shape of something rotating rapidly

   Synonyms: convolution, swirl, whirl

Synonyms

maelstrom, whirlpool, convolution, swirl, whirl

Common word forms

vortexes

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