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cyclone

noun
/ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/US/ˈsaɪ.kləʊn/UK

Etymology

Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

  1. derived from term

Definitions

  1. Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low…

    Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.

    • Near-synonym: storm

  2. A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.

    • Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane

  3. The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and…

    The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A strong wind.

    2. A cyclone separator

      A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator

    3. To separate using a cyclone separator.

      • The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate.
      • The Syncrude Tar Sand Mine in Alberta, Canada uses a similar hydraulic cell construction technique to raise tailings embankments, although tailings are not cycloned.
      • Some catsup manufacturers demand a hot break before the tomatoes are cycloned in order to retain the largest possible amount of pectin from the tomatoes.

    4. To storm as a cyclone.

      • What difference if it rained, hailed, blew, snowed, cycloned?

    5. To whirl in spirals as a result of a cyclone or whirlwind-like force.

      • White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness
      • Pine needles cycloned wildly as Jan swung her car into the Institute's parking lot.
      • The unicorn stamped and gave him a scornful look as Sally cycloned away from them, but Wulfric laughed to himself a crafty laugh.

    6. To storm wildly

      To storm wildly; to be in a frenzy.

      • The winds of change cycloned around Rhodesia and the debris began to fall within its borders.
      • Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.

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Derived

anticyclone, bomb cyclone, cyclone cellar, cyclone chaser, cyclone fence, cyclone hunter, cyclonelike, cyclone pit, cyclone sandwich, cyclonic, cyclonoscope, extratropical cyclone, ex-tropical cyclone, hydrocyclone, mesocyclone, misocyclone, multicyclone, news cyclone, subtropical cyclone, supercyclone, tropical cyclone

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA