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Anticyclone

An′ti-cyˊclone

(ăn′tĭ-sīˊklōn)

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Noun.

(Meteorol.)

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

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Anˊti-cy-clon′ic

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Adj.

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Anˊti-cy-clon′ic-al-ly

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adv.

Definition 2024

anticyclone

anticyclone

English

Noun

anticyclone ‎(plural anticyclones)

(meteorology) a system of winds that spiral out from a centre of high pressure

Translations

system of winds

Arabic: إعصار مضاد
Armenian: անտիցիկլոն ‎(anticʿiklon)
Catalan: anticicló m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 反氣旋 (zh), 反气旋 (zh) ‎(fǎnqìxuán), 高氣壓 (zh), 高气压 (zh) ‎(gāoqìyā)
Finnish: antisykloni (fi)
French: anticyclone (fr) m
German: Antizyklon m, Hochdruckgebiet (de) n
Greek: αντικυκλώνας (el) m ‎(antikyklónas)
Indonesian: antisiklon (id)
Italian: anticiclone (it)

Japanese: 高気圧 ‎(こうきあつ, kōkiatsu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: høytrykk n
Polish: antycyklon (pl) m, wyż (pl) m
Portuguese: anticiclone m
Russian: антицикло́н (ru) m ‎(anticiklón)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: антициклон m, антициклона f

Roman: anticiklon m, anticiklona (sh) f
Swedish: anticyklon (sv)
Turkish: antisiklon (tr)

See also

French

Noun

anticyclone m ‎(plural anticyclones)

(meteorology) a high pressure zone, an anticyclone