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cyclonic

 
 
(sī′klän·ik)

(geophysics) Having a sense of rotation about the local vertical that is the same as that of the earth's rotation: as viewed from above, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, undefined at the Equator.


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