vortex

• "It's locked onto us, as the other was locked onto the ogre Should we swear off crunching bones I never was much for human bones anyway I think the vortex is ahead," Chester said. —  The Source of Magic
• The trauma vortex is the result of "an uncompleted biological response to threat, which leaves the system in an excessively high level of arousal, with thwarted movements of defense frozen in time"; the healing vortex occurs when victims learn how to —  Dissident Voice
• But even a vortex is a vortex in something. —  Back to Methuselah
• We have nothing but matter and motion, and when the vortex is once started its properties are all determined from the original impetus, and no further assumptions are possible Even in the present undeveloped state of the theory, the contemplation of the individuality and indestructibility of a ring-vortex in a perfect fluid cannot fail to disturb the commonly received opinion that a molecule, in order to be permanent, must be a very hard body In fact one of the first conditions which a molecule must fulfil is, apparently, inconsistent with its being a single hard body. —  Five of Maxwell's Papers
• It has been suggested that it was of the same nature, and produced by the same causes, as the vortex which is formed when a vessel full of fluid is emptied through an orifice in its bottom. —  Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science

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