Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cyclonic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: cy-clonic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.

adj

Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Example Sentences

"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."
"An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes."

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

more cyclonic (comparative) most cyclonic (superlative)

Derived Forms

anticyclonic cyclonically mesocyclonic noncyclonic

Phrases

cyclonic separation cyclonic storm cyclonic vacuum cleaner

Synonyms

cyclonal cyclonical

Questions

What does cyclonic mean?: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.
Where does cyclonic come from?: 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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