Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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.
To mix using a vortex mixer
A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance.