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Cyclonic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center wordnet

Etymology

From cyclone + -ic.

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