anticyclonic
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anticyclonic
(¦an·tē′sī¦klän·ik)
(meteorology) Referring to a rotation about the local vertical that is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, undefined at the Equator.
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