Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or of the nature of a cyclone: as, a cyclonic area; cyclonic action; “the cyclonic motion in sun-spots,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a cyclone.
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- adjective of, or pertaining to a
cyclone - adjective meteorology
rotating in the same direction as theEarth i.e.anticlockwise in theNorthern Hemisphere andclockwise in theSouthern Hemisphere
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center
Etymologies
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Examples
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The difference between the two culminated in a disturbance which might aptly be called cyclonic, for Sempland on nearly the first occasion that he had been permitted to leave the hospital had repaired to Fanny
A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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Modern science shows that all storms are cyclonic, that is, are circular eddies of wind of greater or less diameter.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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Mr. Payton had felt inclined to read his "cyclonic" young daughter a lecture, but the sight of her bright young face completely disarmed him, and he could only breathe a prayer of thankfulness that she was safe.
Lucile Triumphant Elizabeth M. Duffield
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And to watch the Fox News cut of this exchange, you'd think O'Reilly scored a minor point by mocking Stewart's repeated use of the word "cyclonic"
Gawker 2010
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But Captain Davenport refused to be comforted, and by the light of a lantern read up the chapter in his Epitome that related to the strategy of shipmasters in cyclonic storms.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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What Fox News is great at is - it's almost like if you watch a weather map of how a hurricane starts and how it has to - and it builds and the whole, and there are cyclonic, you know, the guys in the morning go, you know, what happens is that night Hannity will be like, is Barack Obama a socialist who is indoctrinating your children?
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All are linked to a cyclonic “pre-filter” mounted on a 5-gallon bucket.
Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: Is carbon fiber dust safe? Premature bearing wear 2011
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What Fox News is great at is - it's almost like if you watch a weather map of how a hurricane starts and how it has to - and it builds and the whole, and there are cyclonic, you know, the guys in the morning go, you know, what happens is that night Hannity will be like, is Barack Obama a socialist who is indoctrinating your children?
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Lower oil and gas output was caused by cyclonic activity in Western Australia, the sale of a stake in the Otway gas asset, planned outages at oil operations and natural field decline.
Woodside Says Tough to Recover LNG Project Delay Ross Kelly 2011
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Halfway through, the wind hauled to the north'ard of northwest, the glass dropped to 28.88, and he turned and ran before a gale of cyclonic fury, missing, by a hair's-breadth, piling up the Mary Rogers on the black-toothed rocks.
MAKE WESTING 2010
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