eddy vs vortex

eddy

noun
  • A circular current; a whirlpool. 

  • A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current. 

  • A marijuana edible. 

verb
  • To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. 

vortex

noun
  • A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. 

  • Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre. 

  • Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current. 

  • A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it. 

  • Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. 

verb
  • To mix using a vortex mixer 

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