Definitions
a violent rotating windstorm
Word origin
Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (kuklóō, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonym: storm”
“Near-synonyms: typhoon, hurricane”
“The product is cycloned and overflow at 45-50% solids is pumped to primary flotation where 50-70% of the copper is removed as a 21% concentrate.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Rotating storm”7 letters
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