VORTEX Synonyms

• a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

• flow in a circular current, of liquids

• (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern

• a violent rotating windstorm

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)

• flow in a circular current, of liquids

• a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth

• the shape of something rotating rapidly

• a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain

• the action of coiling or twisting or winding together

• the shape of something rotating rapidly

• turn in a twisting or spinning motion

• flow in a circular current, of liquids

• confused movement

• the shape of something rotating rapidly

• a usually brief attempt

• the act of rotating rapidly

• turn in a twisting or spinning motion

• cause to spin

• flow in a circular current, of liquids

• revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis

• fly around