Anticyclone

[æntɪ'saɪkləʊn] or [,æntɪ'saɪ'klon]

Definition

(noun.) (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern.

Typist: Willie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.

Editor: Timmy

Definition

n. name given to the rotatory flow of air from an atmospheric area of high pressure.—adj. Anticyclon′ic.

Checker: Stella