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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

Barely a minute after Obama began watching the live feed, one of the Black Hawk helicopters was caught in an air vortex and performed an emergency landing inside the compound, becoming disabled.

From Washington Post

A club that worried about getting sucked into the relegation vortex is now striding proudly and purposefully in third place, five points clear of the field.

From BBC

“During the early ’70s and the New Age movement, vortexes became popular places to meditate and feel concentrated energy from the earth.

From Los Angeles Times