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Nov 30, 2009
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vor•tic•i•ty



Pronunciation: (vôr-tis'i-tē), [key]
n.,
pl. -ties.
Mech.
a measure of the circulation of a fluid: a quantity equal to twice the angular momentum of a particle of the fluid around which there is circulation.

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