Meteor. [ANTI- 2.] The rotatory outward flow of air from an atmospheric area of high pressure; also, the whole system of high pressure and outward flow.
1877. Academy, 3 Nov., 435/1. The ‘cirri’ … cannot indicate the line of air motion from the cyclone to the anticyclone.
1880. Geikie, Phys. Geog., ii. xi. 86. The outward flowing from a region of high pressure is called an anticyclone or anticyclonic movement.
1880. Times, 11 Aug., 11/6. Owing to a sudden increase of pressure, a large anticyclone had been formed over France, England, and Ireland.
