vortical

comparative more vortical · superlative most vortical

1. Of or pertaining to a vortex; containing vortices; moving in a vortex.First known use 17th c.

   Motion around the eddy is called vortical, and motion along the axis is called jetal.

   2005, Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Experiments 6, page 187

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   The motions of this odd Liquor were not only various, but frequently Vortical; to be satisfyed of which I sometimes put short bits of straw, or Fragments of some such like stuff, upon the discovered part of the surface of the Liquor, by which they were carryed towards very distant, if not opposite, parts of the Vessel at the same time.

   1686, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society of London, page 1190

   He assumed, in brief, that infinite space is filled with infinite matter; that matter was originally in a chaotic, formless condition; that the cosmical bodies arose at first from vortical motions in the original mass.

   1888, Alexander Winchell, World-life: or, Comparative Geology, part II

   The book's owner, Maurice Conchis (Anthony Quinn) befriends Urfe and brings him into his vortical universe.

   1968 December 20, “Orpheus Now”, in Time

   In many cases, examination of the flow fields in greater detail reveals a more vortical or turbulent flow around the collimated core.

   2002, David De Young, The Physics of Extragalactic Radio Sources, page 174

   Synonyms: turbulent