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vortex
1: something that resembles a whirlpool <the hellish vortex of battle
— Time>2 a: a mass of fluid (as a liquid) with a whirling or circular motion that tends to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle and to draw toward this cavity or vacuum bodies subject to its action
; especially : whirlpool
, eddy b: a region within a body of fluid in which the fluid elements have an angular velocity
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