vortically
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vortically (not comparable)
- In a vortical manner; in terms of, or by means of, a vortex.
- 1945, Alexander Hopkins McDannald, editor, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 14, page 567:
- 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.
- 2009, Marilyn Jager Adams, “8: The Challenge of Advanced Texts: The Interdepenednce of Reading and Learning”, in Elfrieda H. Hiebert, editor, Reading More, Reading Better, page 182:
- 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.