meaning of whirlwind

1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
2.
Fig. : A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
3.
Whirlwind An early computer from the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics. Whirlwind used electrostatic memory and ran Laning and Zierler 1953; and ALGEBRAIC, COMPREHENSIVE and SUMMER SESSION all 1959. [Details, reference?]
4.
a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth


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