What’s the plural of vortex?
The plural of vortex is vortexes or vortices.
Is “vortex” singular or plural?
Vortex is the singular noun form; the plural is vortices or vortexes.
What does the word vortex mean?
According to Phenomena.org on whirlpools/vortexes:
Any whirlpool that contains a downdraft – one capable of sucking objects beneath the water’s surface – is called a vortex. (Phenomena.org, whirpool/vortex.)
Other Latin nouns
| singular | plural |
| index | indexes and indices |
| matrix | matrices and matrixes |
| appendix | appendices or appendexes |
| codex | codices or codexes |
| vortex | vortices or vortexes |
| vertex | vertices or vertexes |
| apex | apices or apexes |
Examples of the word vortex used in sentences
1. A vortex detector would have civilian applications too.
2. The polar vortex is a system of wintertime winds.
3. In the movie, the vortex pulled in every spaceship that came near it.
4. He was caught in a swirling vortex of terror.
5. They are stuck in that whirling vortex of unhappiness, loneliness and boredom; maybe their partner is working long hours.
Examples of vortexes/vortices used in application
1. The nonlinear solution of the partial differential equations in the form of dipolar vortices is found.
2. The vortices soon transformed into very turbulent motion within the horizontal layers, which grew continuously in a cellular pattern.
3. When the transverse vortices convected downstream, an ejection sequence occurred near the wall.
4. At this timescale, however, near-surface vortices are affected by external currents, bottom topography, wind, etc., and the whole approach has to be revised.
5. Around these filaments, or vortices, the superconducting properties are partially destroyed.
Origin of the word vortex
From etymology online on vortex (n.):
1650s, “whirlpool, eddying mass,” from Latin vortex, variant of vertex “an eddy of water, wind, or flame; whirlpool; whirlwind,” from stem of vertere “to turn”.
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