Definitions for cyclone

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cyclone cy·clone

Spelling: [sahy-klohn]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ kloʊn/

Cyclone is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in cyclone (ccelnoy).

Definitions for cyclone

noun

1. a large-scale, atmospheric wind-and-pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Compare anticyclone, extratropical cyclone, tropical cyclone.
2. (not in technical use) tornado.
3. Also called cyclone collector, cyclone separator. Machinery. a device for removing small or powdered solids from air, water, or other gases or liquids by centrifugal force.

Origin of cyclone

term introduced by British meteorologist Henry Piddington (1797-1858) in 1848, perhaps Greek kyklôn revolving (present participle of kykloûn to revolve, verbal derivative of kýklos; see

Examples for cyclone

When this cyclone of rage had passed away he was left pensive.

These rollers were caused by a cyclone, and gave us some idea of its violence.

I looked out of the windows to see what the cyclone State had to give me.

In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

Puts me in mind of the time I was caught in a Kansas cyclone.

For all the changes in the world seemed gathering in a cyclone now.

He said nothing until the narrator was through, including the account of the cyclone.

The Trainer's admonition seemed like a cry to a cyclone, as void of usefulness.

Within was the balm of rest—the rest that lies in the heart of the cyclone.

When Prue announced the make-up of her troupe there was a cyclone in her own home.