Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or moving in a vortex; whirling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing a vortex, as an infusorian.
- noun Any ciliate infusorian which makes a vortex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling.
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Examples
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Paik's soundless stillness is stoic even brilliant rhetoric from regret to a callback of neglect lack of glee tight in its lack of weight white etched in black stuck in eternal glitch caught in the net a tent clinging in vortical twirls blinding glitter blurring lines a nit without whirr in nature a twig in ether a white static wing
GHOST DANCE IN 33 MOVEMENTS by ANNY BALLARDINI EILEEN 2009
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More sought, by this hypothesis, to account for phenomena that apparently defy the laws of mechanical physics (for example the inter-vortical trajectory of comets, the sympathetic vibration of strings and tidal motion).
The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007
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Electromagnetism and gravitation are together in one vortical motion law!
General Relativity as a Tool Mark 2006
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If the sun were a gravitating body following the same laws as the planets, then where is the foci between it and the planets that vortical LAW says MUST be present?
General Relativity as a Tool Mark 2006
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So there is every reason to consider vortical law when considering general relativity and again, this view does not contradict science because the solar system is already a vortex and so already falls under the mathematical law of vortex dynamics, but it goes further in explaining the workings of spacetime.
General Relativity as a Tool Mark 2006
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There is no scientific dispute that the solar system follows vortical law.
General Relativity as a Tool Mark 2006
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Each law of nature has the like universality; eating, sleep or hybernation, rotation, generation, metamorphosis, vortical motion, which is seen in eggs as in planets.
Representative Men 2006
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Crackpots quote theorists when simple LAW - vortical law, undisputable LAW which the solar system follows - is all that is needed.
General Relativity as a Tool Mark 2006
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The Gilpin-and-Soulé paper, chapter two of the Yellow Book, included those vortical diagrams.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Each faced the vortical routes to doom represented in the diagrams of Gilpin and Soulé.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
whichbe commented on the word vortical
Of, like or pertaining to a vortex; swirling.
May 11, 2008