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Definition cyclone
Etymology
Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either ?????? (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or ?????? (kukló?, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle ?????? (kuklôn).
Noun
cyclone (plural cyclones)
- A system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.
- A low pressure system.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- A strong wind.
- A South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
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