A whirlpool is a very fast rotating movement.
A whirlpool is a fast rotating movement made by water , air or another element. Based on this meaning, the concept also has various symbolic uses.
Aquatic eddies are formed when water rotates at high speed on itself. They may have a deep cavity capable of attracting bodies towards their center or just a depression in their central part. The origin of these eddies can be found in an irregularity of the underwater floor; in the action of the wind that impacts the water; or in the collision between currents advancing in opposite directions.
The dangers of aquatic eddies
In the field of fiction, it is common for whirlpools to be presented as a great danger to navigation and that they are even capable of “engulfing” large vessels. In the real world, however, this is almost impossible.
This does not indicate, on the other hand, that aquatic eddies cannot be impressive, or that there are no dangers related to their presence in the middle of a maritime trajectory. For example, in 2011 a group of scientists from the United States discovered two whirlpools in the Atlantic Ocean whose dimensions were around 400 kilometers in diameter.
Aquatic eddies carry certain risks.
Other types
According to certain meteorological conditions, fire whirls may exist, with the flames rising vertically.
It is also possible to record steam devils and dust devils , among others.
Swirls of hair
On the other hand, the twisted accumulation of hair is known as a swirl. For example: “I have to cut my hair: I can't control my bobs anymore” , “I'm going to comb my bob and I'm ready to go out” .
The swirl in the hair is one of the most annoying characteristics for people who care about their appearance, since it is an area of the scalp from which the hair grows in different directions, contrary to those of the rest of the hair. the head, which threatens the neatness of a hairstyle. As with many of these phenomena, there are a series of studies on the matter, ranging from mere research to the search for absurd relationships between it and certain aspects of the person.
For example, research suggested that the sense of swirl is linked to the hand we use to write; In other words, right-handers have right-handed eddies, and vice versa. More controversial and apparently unfounded is that which proposes a relationship between the sense of the whirlpool and homosexuality.
Outside of pseudoscientific studies, science assures that human beings are not the only animals in which whirlpools occur, and that in all cases they appear in the embryonic phase. The genes that determine the direction in which the hair will grow define this hair rotation already from that moment of development , and this leads us to a fundamental characteristic of the whirlpool: it cannot be modified.
Since swirl is a problem for many, there is no shortage of methods that seek to reverse it or eliminate it completely, but none of them achieve their goal . Its location can be the crown area, but also the neck or the front of the skull; In the latter case, it becomes especially difficult to style and maintain a fringe, as it tends to split in two or rise from the swirl position.
a tumult
Whirlpool, finally, can be a tumult or a confused congregation of people, brought together by something unforeseen.
“A swirl of people immediately gathered around the deceased.”y “At the exit of the stadium, the supporters of the Dutch national team caused a whirlwind that destroyed everything in its path”son acepciones que muestran este uso.