Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Physics A measure of the rate of rotational spin in a fluid.
- n. Meteorology A measure of the spin of an air mass such as a low- or high-pressure weather system.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or condition of the rotating portions of a fluid in which vortex-motion occurs.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- vortex + -ity (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This resulted in a great deal of wind shear and vorticity, which is the tendency for the atmosphere to spin.”
The Huffington Post: Leadville Tornado: Rare Funnel Cloud Forms Over Mount Massive
“Burg said the snow showers are rotating around what meteorologists call a vorticity maximum.”
“Last night's GFS (6z) model forecasts of surface pressures and 850 temperatures (top panels) and 500 mb heights and vorticity (spin at around 18000 ft, bottom panels).”
The Washington Post: Potential storm Tues-Wed: more snow or rain?
“Upper level disturbance or "vorticity maximum" at 500 mb about 18,000 feet at 1 a.m.”
The Washington Post: Three possible storms: will any pack a punch?
“The 84 hour surface and 500 mb (18,000 ft) height and vorticity (atmospheric spin) for the NAM (top panels) and GFS (bottom panels) are shown below.”
The Washington Post: Latest on the Tues night-Wed storm threat
“Left: 500 mb (18,000 feet) heights and vorticity (atmospheric spin) on the left.”
The Washington Post: Snow threat up, 1 or 2 inches possible tomorrow
“The colors represent the vorticity or "amount of rotation" that this particle experiences, where red signifies positive (east-west) flow and blue signifies negative (west-east) flow.”
Does Zonal Swishing Play a Part in Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals? | Universe Today
“Global ozone trends in potential vorticity coordinates using TOMS and GOME intercompared against the Dobson network.”
Long-term change and variability in ozone levels in the Arctic
“It was claimed that if one observed when the ink stopped swirling, meaning the viscosity of the water had dissipated its initial vorticity or curl; i.e.\nabla \times U = 0 then, if the plug was extracted ever so slowly so as not to introduce any additional vorticity, the tub would empty with a counterclockwise swirl in the northern hemisphere.”
northern hemisphere - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“We get one cell that just pops and turns because (INAUDIBLE) way up here so we have a lot of spin or a lot of vorticity with it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vorticity’.
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phrontistery-v
from phrontistery.info
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SoSheShall's list
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#termsfromtoday
I'm always entertained by the terms @immerito tweets using the hashtag #termsfromtoday. As best I can tell, the tag emerged in mid 2011 after a brief flirtation with an alternate hashtag form. You'...
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
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Wild Weather
anabatic wind, stratiform, fractostratus, frazil slush, isodrosotherm, mammatus clouds, macroburst, nimbostratus, ribbon lightning, staccato lightning, subtropical jet, suction vortex and 76 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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