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• n  the shape of something rotating rapidly
• n  a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)

• If the polar vortex breaks up before the sun rises after months of darkness to trigger the reaction, there will be no hole this year.
• Did wake vortex contribute to the crash of USAir Flight 427?.
• Mike Nelson epa Corbis Plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic toys even last year's Crocs end up in the shifting vortex, which some scientists estimate to be twice the .

• whirl
• swirl
• convolution
• whirlpool
• maelstrom

News & Articles

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• Vortex EcoSmart Hand Dryer is ECA Approved
  The SAVORTEX Vortex EcoSmart energy efficient hand dryer is now approved by the ECA. (PRWeb June 14, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10826476.htm
  June 14, 2013 - PRWeb
• Pan American Goldfields urges stockholders to protect value of their investment by rejecting Vortex Capital slate
  Pan American Goldfields urges stockholders to protect value of their investment by rejecting Vortex Capital slate
  June 14, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Do This Tonight: '70s Horror Films At Vortex Room
  This month, The Vortex Room is screening a series of old B movies in 'The Vortex Phenomena', which run the gamut from chilling to cheesy. [ more › ]
  June 13, 2013 - SFist

Quotes

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• Greg Kinnear in Washington Post
  People trying to keep it together in spite of a swirling vortex of despair they find themselves in is always something that sparks me,Kinnear says wryly. "I don't know what specifically it is that I'm drawn to, but I always feel like I...
• Kurt Busch in Motorsport.com
  It was a great effort by our Miller Lite Vortex Dodge team,Busch said of his third career top-five finish and eighth career top-10 here at MIS. "We had a strong car early on. It seems like we lost a little bit of speed as the race went on,...
• Michael Chiklis in San Jose Mercury News
  He's in that vortex, and he's swimming,Chiklis explains.