cyclonic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

词形变化

more cyclonic comparative most cyclonic superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
anticyclonic cyclonically cyclonic separation cyclonic storm cyclonic vacuum cleaner mesocyclonic noncyclonic

词源

Etymology tree
English cyclone
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cyclonic
From cyclone + -ic.
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