Whirlwind

n.	1.
	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. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots the woods. And drowns the villages. - Bryant.
	2.	Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.

Noun

1.

whirlwind - a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth

(computer)

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).

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