cyklon
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See also: cyklón
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cyclone.
Noun
cyklon c (singular definite cyklonen, plural indefinite cykloner)
- a cyclone
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cyklon m inan (related adjective cyklonalny or cykloniczny or cyklonowy)
- (countable, meteorology) cyclone (any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure)
- (uncountable, historical, Nazism) Zyklon A and Zyklon B (pesticide consisting of hydrocyanic acid absorbed on pellets of diatomaceous earth; when exposed to the air, hydrogen cyanide is released; used most infamously during the Nazi Holocaust in some gas chambers)
- (countable) cyclone, cyclone separator (separator that employs cyclonic separation)
Declension
Declension of cyklon
Further reading
- cyklon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- cyklon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- cyklon in PWN's encyclopedia
Swedish
Noun
cyklon c
- (meteorology) a cyclone
- a cyclone, a cyclone separator
Declension
Declension of cyklon
See also
- tornado (“larger tornado (especially in the US)”)
- tromb (“tornado”)
- virvelvind (“whirlwind”)