Definition of Cyclonical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center. "Cyclonic cloud pattern"

Exact synonyms: Cyclonal, Cyclonic
Category relationships: Meteorology
Derivative terms: Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone
Partainyms: Cyclone

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm. "Cyclonic destruction"
Exact synonyms: Cyclonal, Cyclonic
Partainyms: Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone
Derivative terms: Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclonical

cyclometric
cyclometry
cyclomixer
cyclonal
cyclonamine
cyclone
cyclone cellar
cyclone separator
cyclonelike
cycloneolignane
cycloneolignanes
cyclones
cycloneuralian
cycloneuralians
cyclonic
cyclonical (current term)
cyclonically
cyclonite
cyclonites
cyclononane
cyclooctadiene
cyclooctadienes
cyclooctane
cyclooctannulated
cyclooctannulation
cyclooctatetraene
cyclooctatetraenes
cyclooctatriene
cyclooctene
cyclooctenes

Literary usage of Cyclonical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"... of cyclonical or rotary character, rotating against tho hands of a watch in our hemisphere, and with the hands of a watch in the southern hemisphere. ..."

2. The Doctor's Window: Poems by the Doctor, for the Doctor, and about the Doctor edited by Ina Russelle Warren (1897)
"... whose head it was heaped In heart-rending anguish was steeped: It came like the rattle of hail Or like a cyclonical gale ; Professional dignity mocked, ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1869)
"This law is evidently that which holds good in cyclones ; but it does not follow from it that the air never moves except in cyclonical sweeps. ..."

4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1872)
"... or what is termed a barometrical depression, over any district, is accompanied by cyclonical movement in the air in the neighboring districts. ..."

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