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单词 supercyclone
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supercyclone
supercyclone n.
Brit. /ˈsuːpəˌsʌɪkləʊn/
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/ˈsjuːpəˌsʌɪkləʊn/
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U.S. /ˈsupərˌsaɪˌkloʊn/
an extremely powerful cyclone; (Meteorology) a tropical cyclone with sustained wind speeds in excess of 130 knots (240 km per hour) in the region of the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal.
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1948 R. T. Peterson Birds over Amer. 279 The sea storm became a land storm, a sort of super-cyclone. Church steeples were snapped off in little towns in the Connecticut Valley.
1975 R. F. Nyrop Area Handbk. for Bangladesh 66 The first half of the twentieth century was comparatively free from the devastation of the supercyclones recorded in earlier centuries, but since then a heavier pattern has resumed.
1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) i. 2 After the super-cyclone last year, thousands of people from Indonesia joined a growing stream from Bangladesh, climbing into anything that would float.
2010 Times of India (Nexis) 3 June ‘The storm is expected to turn into a super cyclone in the next 48 hours’, Khole said, adding that the coastal areas of Gujarat would experience more rains.
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