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Definition of Cyclonical
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a low pressure center. "Cyclonic cloud pattern"
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"
Partainyms: Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone
Derivative terms: Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone, Cyclone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyclonical
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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