plural of vile vortex

Any of a number of geographic areas, arranged in a pattern around the Earth, that are held to be the sites of unexplained disappearances and other mysterious phenomena.

(fluid dynamics) An oscillating flow that occurs when a fluid flows past a bluff body at certain velocities. Vortices are created at the back of the body and detach periodically from either side of it, forming a von Kármán vortex street.

(aviation, aerodynamics) One of the paired vortices formed behind any heavier-than-air aircraft when producing lift, created by the velocity differential between the air being accelerated downwards by the wings (or other lifting surface), on the one hand, and the unaccelerated air beyond the aircraft's wingtips, on the other.

plural of admin vortex

(physics) a flow pattern exhibited by superfluids, such as ⁴He below 2.17K, in which the circulation rate is restricted to a quantized multiple of Planck's constant divided by the mass of the He atom

(British Army military slang) A disorganised soldier.

A large-scale cyclone located in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere that surround the polar highs and lie in the wake of the polar front.

plural of quantized vortex

(chemistry, historical) A hypothetical ring-shaped mass of elementary matter in continuous vortical motion, once regarded as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom.