anticyclone

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

anticyclone (plural anticyclones)

1. (meteorology) a system of winds that spiral out from a centre of high pressure

Coordinate terms

• cyclone
• depression
• hurricane
• tropical storm
• typhoon

 

Translations

system of winds

• Arabic: إعصار مضاد‎
• Armenian: անտիցիկլոն (hy) (anticʿiklon)
• Catalan: anticicló m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反氣旋／反气旋 (zh) (fǎnqìxuán), 高氣壓／高气压 (zh) (gāoqìyā)

• Danish: højtryk (da) n
• Dutch: hogedrukgebied (nl)
• Esperanto: anticiklono, kontraŭciklono
• Finnish: antisykloni (fi), korkeapaine (fi)
• French: anticyclone (fr) m
• Georgian: ანტიციკლონი (anṭiciḳloni)
• German: Antizyklon m, Hochdruckgebiet (de) n
• Greek: αντικυκλώνας (el) m (antikyklónas)
• Gujarati: પ્રતિચક્રવાત (praticakravāt)
• Indonesian: antisiklon (id)
• Italian: anticiclone (it) m
• Japanese: 高気圧 (ja) (こうきあつ, kōkiatsu)
• Kazakh: антициклон (antisiklon)
• Latvian: anticiklons m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høytrykk n

• Persian: پادچرخند‎ (pâdčarxand), واچرخند‎ (fa) (vâčarxand)
• Polish: antycyklon (pl) m, wyż (pl) m
• Portuguese: anticiclone m
• Russian: антицикло́н (ru) m (anticiklón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антициклон m, антицикло́на f

  Roman: anticiklon m, anticiklóna (sh) f

• Spanish: anticiclón (es) m
• Swedish: anticyklon (sv)
• Turkish: antisiklon (tr)
• Vietnamese: xoáy nghịch

Further reading

• anticyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English anticyclone, etymologically analyzable as anti- +‎ cyclone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.si.klɔn/

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Noun

anticyclone m (plural anticyclones)

1. (meteorology) a high pressure zone, an anticyclone

Further reading

• “anticyclone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.