anticyclonen.
Meteorol.
The rotatory outward flow of air from an atmospheric area of high pressure; also, the whole system of high pressure and outward flow.
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cyclone1875
anticyclone1877
mesocyclone1963
1877 Academy 3 Nov. 435/1 The ‘cirri’..cannot indicate the line of air motion from the cyclone to the anticyclone.
1880 A. Geikie Elem. Lessons Physical Geogr. ii. xi. 86 The outward flowing from a region of high pressure is called an anticyclone or anticyclonic movement.
1880 Times 11 Aug. 11/6 Owing to a sudden increase of pressure, a large anticyclone had been formed over France, England, and Ireland.
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