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Anticyclone

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A system of winds that spirals out from a center of high pressure.
  2. 2
    (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern wordnet

Etymology

From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s.

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