Cyclone
['saɪkləʊn] or ['saɪklon]
Definition
(noun.) a violent rotating windstorm.
(noun.) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.
Typist: Lycurgus--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
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Definition
n. a circular or rotatory storm.—adj. Cyclon′ic.
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Examples
- It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- An anti-cyclone is a storm of opposite character, the general tendency of the winds in it being away from the center, while it also shifts within comparatively small limits. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- What are Cyclones? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cyclones are preceded by a singular calm and a great fall of the barometer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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