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What does vortices mean?

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Noun
  1. plural of vortex
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The procession of temperate cyclonic vortices continues unabated and their northerly troughs, the cold fronts, progress in tandem.
When the group eventually reassembled on the boat, we saw large vortices at the surface, some resembling giant whirlpools.
Even as late as the 17th century, Descartes imagined all space to be filled with little whirling vortices which he called the plenum.
We trained a thrush nightingale to fly steadily in the wind tunnel, near a reference point to allow visualisation of its wake vortices.
This would be placed in the path of a tornado, and would relay back wind speeds, location of downdrafts and updrafts, number of vortices, etc.
Similarly, as the nose goes down, the vortices below the keels tend to counteract the upward tilt of the tail end.

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