anticyclone

Noun
  • (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center
    Circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern (synset 114544623)
    domain category: meteorology - the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)
    hypernym: atmosphere, atmospheric state - the weather or climate at some place
    part holonym: high - an air mass of higher than normal pressure

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