Signification visuelle de 'vortices'? - apprendre avec des images, exemples du quotidien

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noun

Tourbillons, vortex

A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.

"The air conditioning unit created small vortices of cool air that circulated around the room. "

Le climatiseur créait de petits vortex d'air frais qui circulaient dans la pièce.

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noun

Tourbillons, vortex

Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.

"2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38"

2004 : le vortex de consommation qu'est East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 août 2004, p.38

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noun

Tourbillons, vortex

Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.

"Sentence:

The vortices of gossip at school seemed to suck everyone in, even those who tried to stay out of it. "

Les tourbillons de potins à l'école semblaient aspirer tout le monde, même ceux qui essayaient de rester en dehors.

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noun

Tourbillons

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.

"While Cartesian physics is outdated, one might imagine early scientists believing that planets were swept around the sun by enormous, invisible vortices of swirling matter. "

Bien que la physique cartésienne soit obsolète, on pourrait imaginer que les premiers scientifiques croyaient que les planètes étaient entraînées autour du soleil par d'énormes tourbillons invisibles de matière tourbillonnante.

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Vortex

Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.

"Under the microscope, the students observed tiny vortices, small flatworms, swimming through the pond water. "

Au microscope, les étudiants ont observé de minuscules vortex, de petits vers plats, nageant dans l'eau de l'étang.

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