| NOUN | state | anticyclone | (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center |
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| Meaning | (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. | |
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| Category | meteorology | The earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather) |
| Parts | high | An air mass of higher than normal pressure |
| Broader | atmosphere, atmospheric state | The weather or climate at some place |
| Opposite | cyclone | (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center |
| Spanish | anticiclón | |
| Catalan | anticicló | |
| Adjectives | anticyclonic | of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center |
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