vortex

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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

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

When ocean currents curl around seamounts, they create turbulent “wake vortices” that can provide the energy to push cold water up, says Jonathan Gula, a physical oceanographer at the University of Western Brittany.

From Science Magazine