English Explanatory Dictionary

anticyclone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A system of winds that spirals out from a center of high pressure.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

anticyclone anticyclones

Etymology

From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s.

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