ANTICYCLONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anticyclone mean? 

• ANTICYCLONE (noun)
  The noun ANTICYCLONE has 1 sense:

1. (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern

  Familiarity information: ANTICYCLONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTICYCLONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("anticyclone" is a kind of...):

atmosphere; atmospheric state (the weather or climate at some place)

Meronyms (parts of "anticyclone"):

high (an air mass of higher than normal pressure)

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Antonym:

cyclone ((meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern)

Derivation:

anticyclonic (of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center)

 Context examples 

They also come and go on much shorter timescales compared to similar anticyclones seen on Jupiter; large storms on Jupiter evolve over decades.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)