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English
Etymology
From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s.
Pronunciation
Noun
anticyclone (plural anticyclones)
- (meteorology) a system of winds that spiral out from a centre of high pressure
Coordinate terms
Translations
system of winds
- Arabic: إعصار مضاد
- Armenian: անտիցիկլոն (hy) (anticʻiklon)
- Belarusian: антыцыкло́н m (antycyklón)
- Catalan: anticicló m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 反氣旋 / 反气旋 (zh) (fǎnqìxuán), 高氣壓 / 高气压 (zh) (gāoqìyā)
- Danish: højtryk (da) n
- Dutch: hogedrukgebied (nl)
- Esperanto: anticiklono, kontraŭciklono
- Finnish: antisykloni (fi), korkeapaine (fi)
- French: anticyclone (fr) m
- Georgian: ანტიციკლონი (anṭiciḳloni)
- German: Antizyklon m, Antizyklone (de) f, Hochdruckgebiet (de) n
- Greek: αντικυκλώνας (el) m (antikyklónas)
- Gujarati: પ્રતિચક્રવાત (praticakravāt)
- Indonesian: antisiklon (id)
- Italian: anticiclone (it) m
- Japanese: 高気圧 (ja) (こうきあつ, kōkiatsu)
- Kazakh: антициклон (antisiklon)
- Latvian: anticiklons (lv) m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høytrykk n
- Persian: پادچرخند (pâdčarxand), واچرخند (fa) (vâčarxand)
- Polish: antycyklon (pl) m, wyż (pl) m
- Portuguese: anticiclone m
- Russian: антицикло́н (ru) m (anticiklón)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: антициклон m, антицикло́на f
- Roman: anticiklon m, anticiklóna (sh) f
- Spanish: anticiclón (es) m
- Swedish: anticyklon (sv)
- Turkish: antisiklon (tr)
- Ukrainian: антицикло́н (uk) m (antycyklón)
- Vietnamese: xoáy nghịch
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Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English anticyclone, etymologically analyzable as anti- + cyclone.
Pronunciation
Noun
anticyclone m (plural anticyclones)
- (meteorology) a high pressure zone, an anticyclone
Further reading