anticyclone

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

anticyclone (plural anticyclones)

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

Coordinate terms

Translations

system of winds

Arabic: إعصار مضاد
Armenian: անտիցիկլոն (hy) (anticʻiklon)
Belarusian: антыцыкло́н m (antycyklón)
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, Antizyklone (de) f, 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 (lv) 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)
Ukrainian: антицикло́н (uk) m (antycyklón)
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)

(meteorology) a high pressure zone, an anticyclone

Further reading

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

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