English Dictionary

vortex

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈvɔɹtɛks/

名詞

比喩的用法 歴史的

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. / (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

日本語の意味

回転しながら渦を作る現象、例としては渦や渦巻き、渦潮などを指す。 / （比喩的に）中心を囲む形で恒常的に暴力的または混沌とした動きをする状態や現象

As the storm approached, a dark vortex formed over the ocean, pulling debris into its swirling center.

嵐が近づくと、海の上に暗い渦が発生し、破片がその渦巻く中心へ引き込まれた。

意味（1）

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

It’s hard to imagine that there is any major American clothing brand that does not have a store in the consumer vortex that is East Hampton; […]

意味（3）

(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.

意味（4）

(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.

意味（5）

(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

vortexes （ plural ）

vortices （ plural ）