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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
eddy/ˈedi/

▶noun (pl. eddies) a circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool. ▶verb (eddies, eddying, eddied) (of water, air, or smoke) move in a circular way.

– origin ME: prob. from the Gmc base of the OE prefix ed- ‘again, back’.

'eddy' also found in these Oxford entries:

eddy current - pothole - rotor - vortex - vorticella - Vorticism

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