Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bomb cyclone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: bom-b -cy-clone
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.

Example Sentences

"It has been suggested that some east coast bomb cyclones form by this process (Shapiro and Keyser, 1990)."
"c. 1999, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, Issues 1-4, American Meteorological Society, page 403, In a compositing study of bomb cyclones, Manobianco (1989) found a prominent localized VM upstream from the developing surface cyclone."
"However, the bomb cyclones’ size and depth are typically larger in the EM^([Eastern Mediterranean]) than in its western part (Kouroutzoglou et al., 2011)."
"The winter storm that forecasters dubbed Elliott intensified into a bomb cyclone near the Great Lakes on Friday, bringing high winds and blizzard conditions from the Northern Plains to western and upstate New York, along with life-threatening flooding, flash-freezing and travel chaos as it went."

Etymology

From bomb (“referring to the extreme rapidity of the storm's development”) + cyclone.

Inflected Forms

bomb cyclones (plural)

Phrases

explosive cyclogenesis meteorological bomb weather bomb

Frequently Paired Words

bombogenesis explosive cyclogenesis meteorological bomb weather bomb

Questions

What does bomb cyclone mean?: A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.
Where does bomb cyclone come from?: From bomb (“referring to the extreme rapidity of the storm's development”) + cyclone.

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