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Cyclone
Definitions
- 1 Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system. broadly
"Near-synonym: storm"
- 2 a violent rotating windstorm wordnet
- 3 A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean. specifically
"Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane"
- 4 (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern wordnet
- 5 The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils. informal
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- 6 A strong wind. informal
- 7 A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
- 1 To separate using a cyclone separator.
"The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate."
- 2 To storm as a cyclone.
"What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned?"
- 3 To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.
"White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness"
- 4 To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.
"When Whyte got an eyeful of our groundsman's Barkjano ass bouncing to a rapid beat, he exploded, not so much in words as in gestures and a rapid departure that contained far greater energy than a trifling “storm”—he cycloned-whirlwinded-squalled and thundergaled out of the house and the whole barbecue."
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 κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.
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 κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.
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