cyclone
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English[edit]
Cyclone Kyarr over the Arabian Sea
Cyclone Fantala over the southwest Indian Ocean near Madagascar

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Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪkloʊn
Noun[edit]
cyclone (plural cyclones)
- (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
- (narrow sense) Such weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
- A low pressure system.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- A strong wind.
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cyclone.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
rotating system of winds
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low pressure system
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more or less violent, small-scale circulations of air
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strong wind
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South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon
cyclone separator — see cyclone separator
Verb[edit]
cyclone (third-person singular simple present cyclones, present participle cycloning, simple past and past participle cycloned)
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.- 1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age
- White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness
- 2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late
- Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.
- 1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age
See also[edit]
- hurricane
- typhoon
- polar vortex
cyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek κυκλῶν (kuklôn), present active participle of κυκλόω (kuklóō, “I encircle”), from κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cyclone m (plural cyclones)
- cyclone (rotating system of winds)
Further reading[edit]
- “cyclone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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