anticyclonic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center

   meteorology

Questions about anticyclonic

What does anticyclonic mean?

anticyclonic means "of or relating to or characteristic of the atmosphere around a high pressure center".

How many syllables are in anticyclonic?

anticyclonic has 5 syllables and divides as an-ti-cy-clo-nic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is anticyclonic a common word?

anticyclonic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.