vortically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.
Example Sentences
- "It is possible that fluid may circulate in a region either vortically or non-vortically."
- "1990, David A. Clarke, An Overview of Computational MHD Jets and Their Comparisons with Recent High Resolution Radio Images, R. Beck, P. P. Kronberg, R. Wielebinski, Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields, International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 140, page 406, This results when a small region, whose magnetic field is grossly amplified by vortically induced shear, is spun about the symmetry axis."
- "In terms of literacy growth, it is a solution that is vortically self-propagating and self-defeating, for it is a solution that denies students the very language, information, and modes of thought that they need most in order to move up and on."
Etymology
From vortical + -ly.