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anticyclone

Other forms: anticyclones

Definitions of anticyclone
  1. noun
    (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern
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    antonyms:
    cyclone
    (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
    type of:
    atmosphere, atmospheric state
    the weather or climate at some place
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