Moves in fast, twisting, circular patterns or creates a twisting shape; the circular patterns themselves.
From Middle English and Old Norse 'svirla,' meaning to turn or whirl. It's related to 'swirl' and shows Scandinavian influence in English vocabulary for motion and spinning.
When you watch water swirl down a drain or paint swirl in water, you're seeing chaos theory in action—mathematicians found that these seemingly random swirls actually follow predictable patterns called fractals, which also appear in galaxies, forests, and our own brains.
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