cyclone
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.
» The cyclone destroyed everything in its path.
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значень: 5(ширше)Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
Near-synonym: storm
Zyklon, Zyklone
цикло́нciklón
цикло́нcyklón
(конкретно)A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane
(розмовне)The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
(розмовне)A strong wind.
A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
- a violent rotating windstorm
- (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
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речень: 15The cyclone destroyed everything in its path.
Algeria isn't in a cyclone region.
Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons all refer to the same weather phenomenon.
deHurrikane, Zyklone und Taifune bezeichnen alle die gleiche Wettererscheinung.
Many houses in my village have been destroyed by the cyclone.
ruМножество домов у нас в деревне было разрушено циклоном.
The cyclone had given the unbroken house to a land of divine beauty.
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мов: 9За значеннями 1
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Coined by English scientist and merchant captain Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s,Coined by English scientist and merchant captain 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.
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