cyklon

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English cyclone.

Noun

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cyklon c (singular definite cyklonen, plural indefinite cykloner)

  1. a cyclone

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
cyklon sense 1
cyklon sense 2
cyklon sense 3

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Zyklon.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɘ.klɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɘklɔn
  • Syllabification: cy‧klon

Noun

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cyklon m inan (related adjective cyklonalny or cykloniczny or cyklonowy)

  1. (countable, meteorology) cyclone (any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure)
  2. (uncountable, historical, Nazism) Zyklon A and Zyklon B (pesticide consisting of hydrocyanic acid absorbed on pellets of diatomaceous earth; when exposed to the air, hydrogen cyanide is released; used most infamously during the Nazi Holocaust in some gas chambers)
  3. (countable) cyclone, cyclone separator (separator that employs cyclonic separation)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • cyklon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cyklon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • cyklon in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

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Noun

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cyklon c

  1. (meteorology) a cyclone
  2. a cyclone, a cyclone separator

Declension

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See also

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References

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