Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

explosive cyclogenesis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables: ex-plo-sive -cy-clo-ge-n-e-sis
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

9

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"1985, SJ Colucci. Journal of the atmospheric sciences, Volume 42, number 24, page 2701, Explosive cyclogenesis and large-scale circulation changes: Implications for atmospheric blocking"
"1986, Frederick Sanders, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 114, page 1781, Explosive Cyclogenesis in the West-Central North Atlantic Ocean, 1981–84. Part I: Composite Structure and Mean Behavior."
"2000, John R. Gyakum and Richard E. Danielson, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, page 851, Analysis of Meteorological Precursors to Ordinary and Explosive Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific."

Etymology

From explosive (“from being the explosive (rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm”) + cyclogenesis.

Usage

Inflected Forms

explosive cyclogeneses (plural)

Synonyms

bombogenesis meteorological bomb weather bomb

Questions

What does explosive cyclogenesis mean?: A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
Where does explosive cyclogenesis come from?: From explosive (“from being the explosive (rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm”) + cyclogenesis.

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