Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Anticyclonic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Anticyclone \An"ti*cy`clone\, n. (Meteorol.)
A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as
regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric
pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- {An`ti*cy*clon"ic}, a. --
{An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly}, adv.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

anticyclonic
adj : (meteorology) of or relating to or characteristic of the
atmosphere around a high pressure center


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