cyclonic

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Definition of cyclonic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.”
    “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.”
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adj

  1. 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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.”
    “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.”
  2. Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Etymology

From cyclone + -ic.

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