cyclonic

English

Etymology

From cyclone +‎ -ic.

Adjective

cyclonic (comparative more cyclonic, superlative most cyclonic)

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, [1]

     The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.

   • 2013 March, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 1 May 2013, page 114:

     An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.

2. (meteorology) Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Derived terms

• anticyclonic
• cyclonically
• cyclonic separation
• cyclonic vacuum cleaner
• mesocyclonic
• noncyclonic

 

Translations

of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone

• Catalan: ciclònic
• Finnish: syklonaalinen
• French: cyclonique (fr)
• Italian: ciclonico
• Occitan: ciclonic
• Polish: cyklonowy (pl), cykloniczny (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: ciclônico

  European: ciclónico

• Russian: циклонный (ru) (ciklonnyj)
• Slovak: cyklónový, cyklonálny
• Spanish: ciclónico
• Ukrainian: циклонний (uk) (cyklonnyj), циклонічний (uk) (cykloničnyj)

rotating in the same direction as the Earth