anticyclone
n.
winds rotating around an area of high atmospheric pressure (Meteorology)
Anticyclone
anticyclone
Noun
1. (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern
(antonym) cyclone
(hypernym) atmosphere, atmospheric state
(part-meronym) high, high pressure
(classification) meteorology
anticyclone (m)
n.
anticyclone, winds rotating around an area of high atmospheric pressure (Meteorology)
Anticyclone
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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