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English
Etymology
From cyclone + -ic.
Adjective
cyclonic (comparative more cyclonic, superlative most cyclonic)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I,
- The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.
2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
- (meteorology) Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Derived terms
Translations
of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone
rotating in the same direction as the Earth