cyclonic
Collocations
3ADJ.
fluid
VERB + CYCLONIC
spinning
CYCLONIC + NOUN
mass
Definitions
adj
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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.
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.
Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical st
- cyclonal
- cyclonical
adjective — of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around
- cyclonal
- cyclonical
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21894, 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, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16
WiktionaryAn 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 an
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