a. [f. prec. -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, a cyclone.
1860. Adm. Fitz-Roy, in Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 226. A similar continuous circulation, or cyclonic commotion.
1867. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens (ed. 2), 54. A [sun] spot of the normal character, by no means cyclonic.
1880. Times, 27 Sept., 5/2. A small cyclonic vortex had formed in the Bay of Bengal.
So Cyclonical a. = prec. Cyclonically adv., after the manner of a cyclone. Cyclonist, Cyclonologist, one who studies cyclones. Cyclonology, the study of cyclones.
1881. J. G. Jeffreys, in Nature, XXIII. 300. A cyclonical storm.
1884. Nature, XXX. 305. Towards and around this depression the winds blow cyclonically.
1882. E. D. Archibald, ibid. XXVI. 31. The general incurvature of the winds in a cyclone, which was formerly altogether denied by the cyclonists—so-called—Reid and Piddington.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog. Sea, xix. § 789. The cyclonologists do not locate their storms in such high latitudes.
1860. Adm. Fitz-Roy, in Merc. Marine Mag., VII. 355. Any person acquainted with cyclonology.
