Vortex
['vɔːteks] or ['vɔrtɛks]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.
(n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
手打:马吉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Whirl, whirlpool, eddy.
編輯:诺拉
解釋/意思:
n. a whirling motion of a fluid forming a cavity in the centre: a whirlpool: an eddy having a rotational motion of the smallest visible portion in the centre:—pl. Vor′tices Vor′texes.—ns. Vor′tex-ring (phys.) a vortical molecular filament or column forming a ring composed of a number of small rotating circles placed side by side—e.g. the smoke-rings emitted by a skilful cigarette-smoker; Vor′tex-thē′ory the theory that matter is ultimately composed of vortices in a fluid—a conception due to Lord Kelvin.—adj. Vor′tical whirling.—adv. Vor′tically.—adjs. Vor′ticose Vortic′ūlar Vortiginal (-ij′-) Vortiginous (-ij′-).
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例句/造句/用法:
- The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her 'vortex', hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew me heart and soul into its vortex. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There he leant over the wall and lowered the lamp, only to behold the vortex formed at the curl of the returning current. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The next important epoch was the invention of Forneyron in 1823, of the water-wheel known as the Turbine and also as the Vortex Wheel. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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