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Definition of Antitrade
1. Noun. Winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics.
Definition of Antitrade
1. n. A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
2. n. A westerly wind which blows nearly continuously between 30° and 50° of latitude in both the northern and the southern hemisphere.
Definition of Antitrade
1. Noun. the wind that blows from west to east above the trade wind ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antitrade
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Antitrade
Literary usage of Antitrade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geography Generalised; Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the by Robert Sullivan, Samuel Haughton (1884)
"To the north and south of the NE and SE trade-wind zones there are two zones,
called the SW and NW antitrade-wind zones. They extend as far north and south ..."
2. Agricultural Policy Reforms and Regional Market Integration in Malawi by Alberto Valdés, Kay Muir-Leresche (1993)
"First, there is a marked tendency to protect agricultural import- ables more than
the exportables; the antitrade bias is confirmed again. ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"When the centre of the barometric maximum shifts to the south, the south-west
wind also moves to lower latitudes, and as the antitrade sinks near the centre ..."
4. Eclectic Physical Geography by Russell Hinman (1916)
"The winds blow obliquely out from these regions of high pressure, forming the
trade winds on the equatorial side, ;md the antitrade winds on the polar side. ..."
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