vortexとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin vortex.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɹtɛks/
• (米国発音)
• 韻: -ɔɹtɛks

名詞

vortex (複数形 vortexes または vortices)

1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
   • 2013 March 1, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 2, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
   • 2004 August 30, Rebecca Mead, “Flip-Flop Emergency”, in The New Yorker‎^[2], page 38:

     It’s hard to imagine that there is any major American clothing brand that does not have a store in the consumer vortex that is East Hampton; […]

3. (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
   • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter 1, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 230675575:

     In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew my heart and soul into its vortex.

4. (historical) 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.
5. (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

派生語

関連する語

• vortical
• vorticity

参考

• eddy
• ley line
• maelstrom

動詞

vortex (三人称単数 現在形 vortexes, 現在分詞 vortexing, 過去形および過去分詞形 vortexed)

1. (chemistry) To mix using a vortex mixer

参照

• “vortex” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “vortex” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯or.teks/, [ˈu̯ɔrt̪ɛks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvor.teks/, [ˈvɔrt̪eks]

名詞

vortex m (genitive vorticis); third declension

1. Archaic form of vertex.

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

参照

• vortex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vortex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vortex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette