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ANTICYCLONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anticyclone" is a kind of...):
atmosphere; atmospheric state (the weather or climate at some place)
Meronyms (parts of "anticyclone"):
high (an air mass of higher than normal pressure)
Domain category:
meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))
Antonym:
cyclone ((meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern)
Derivation:
anticyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center)
