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Definition of Cyclonal

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

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a violent tropical storm. "Cyclonic destruction"

Definition of Cyclonal

1. cyclone [adj] - See also: cyclone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclonal

cyclomaltooctaose cyclomancy cyclomatic cyclomer cyclomerization cyclomerize cyclomerized cyclometalation cyclometallation cyclometallations

cyclometer cyclometers cyclometric cyclometry cyclomixer cyclonal (current term) cyclonamine cyclone cyclone cellar cyclone separator

cyclonelike cycloneolignane cycloneolignanes cyclones cycloneuralian cycloneuralians cyclonic cyclonical cyclonically cyclonite

Literary usage of Cyclonal

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

1. Modern Meteorology: An Outline of the Growth and Present Condition of Some by Frank Waldo (1893)
"When there is a true cyclonal gradient, that is, inwards towards the centre, such as exists near the surface of the earth in a barometric depression, ..."

2. A New System of Meteorology, Designed for Schools and Private Students by John H. Tice (1878)
"10. examination of the Charts and of figure 10, a and b, we find these directions correspond with the ascending air in the cyclonal vortex of the Southern ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1865)
"If the cyclonal columns were stationary and contiguous, some intermediate disturbance, analogous to a pinion between two cogs, must occur; ..."

4. Elementary Meteorology for High Schools and Colleges by Frank Waldo (1896)
"the cyclonal whirls. Such is the ring of high pressure which encircles the globe at ... When cyclonal areas enter this ring of high pressure from without, ..."

5. The Electric Theory of Astronomy by Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh (1886)
"as this Hue is formed it expels the atmosphere on all sides around it, producing a vacuum, which forms the cyclonal vortex. The rising current of the ..."

6. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"(B) cyclonal rotation with gradients directed outward, i. ... We attain the same result if we think of a cyclonal move- icnt in which the paths of the air ..."

7. The Development of the American Alligator (A. Mississippiensis) by Albert Moore Reese (1908)
"(B) cyclonal rotation with gradients directed outward, ie, ... We attain'the same result if we think of a cyclonal movement in which the paths of the air ..."

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