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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. ba`ros weight + cyclone + -meter. ] (Meteorol.) An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ Gr. ky`klos circle, wheel. ] A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cyclo- + branchiate. ] (Zool) Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloganoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Cycloganoidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + NL. ganoidei. See Ganoid. ] (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes, having cycloid scales. The bowfin (Amia calva) is a living example. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -graph. ] See Arcograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -oid: cf. F. cycloïde. ] (Geom.) A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common cycloid is the curve described when the generating point (p) is on the circumference of the generating circle; the curtate cycloid, when that point lies without the circumference; the prolate or inflected cycloid, when the generating point (p) lies within that circumference. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Cycloidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cycloid scale (Zool.), a fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Cycloidei. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + -oid. ] (Zool.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Zool.) Same as 2d and 3d Cycloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -meter. ] A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo- + -metry: cf. F. cyclométrie. ] (Geom.) The art of measuring circles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr.&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; moving in a circle, p. pr. of &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. ky`klos circle. ] 1. (Meteor.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The atmospheric disturbance usually accompanying a cyclone, marked by an onward moving area of high pressure, is called an anticyclone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Meteor.) In general, a condition of the atmosphere characterized by a central area of pressure much lower than that of surrounding areas, and a system of winds blowing inward and around (clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the northern); -- called also a low-area storm. It is attended by high temperature, moist air, abundant precipitation, and clouded sky. The term includes the hurricane, typhoon, and tropical storms; it should not be applied to the moderate disturbances attending ordinary areas of low pressure nor to tornadoes, waterspouts, or “twisters, ” in which the vertical motion is more important than the horizontal. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A tornado. See above, and Tornado. [ Middle U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or }. A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [ Middle U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to a cyclone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclone + -scope. ] An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Note under Cyclops, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See Cycle, and cf. Encyclopedia, Pedagogue. ] 1. The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics; an encyclopedia. See Encyclopedia. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. Cyclopeus, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; Cyclops: cf. F. cyclopeen. ] Pertaining to the Cyclops; characteristic of the Cyclops; huge; gigantic; vast and rough; massive; as, Cyclopean labors; Cyclopean architecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of tropical Old World ferns having closely crowded circular sori and no indusia.
Syn. -- genus Cyclophorus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a colorless flammable gas (C3H6) with a three-carbon ring, sometimes used as an anesthetic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. sing. & pl. [ L. Cyclops, Gr. Ky`klwps (strictly round-eyed), pl. Ky`klwpes; ky`klos circle + 'w`ps eye. ] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Pope, in his translation of the “Odyssey, ” uniformly spells this word Cyclop, when used in the singular. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the lumpfishes.
Syn. -- family Cyclopteridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the type genus of the Cyclopteridae, consisting of lumpfishes. It includes Cyclopterus lumpus of the North Atlantic.
Syn. -- genus Cyclopterus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cyclo- + Gr. "o`rama sight, spectacle.] A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cyclo- + -scope. ] A machine for measuring at any moment velocity of rotation, as of a wheel of a steam engine. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ky`klwsis circulation, from kykloy^n. See Cyclone. ] (Bot.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small genus of terrestrial ferns of tropical and subtropical southern hemisphere.
Syn. -- genus Cyclosorus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales.
Syn. -- class Cyclosporeae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a chemical substance produced by some soil fungi, which suppresses the cellular immune response by inhibiting T cell activation, and has been used in medicine to reduce foreign tissue rejection, especially subsequent to organ transplant surgery. [ PJC ]

‖‖/mhw>, n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + sto`ma, -atos mouth. ] (Zool.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Cyclostomata. ] (Zool.) A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. (Zool.) Pertaining to the Cyclostomi. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cyclo- + Gr. sty^los column. ] Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cyclo + style. ] A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a mild bipolar disorder. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to cyclothymia.
Syn. -- cyclothymic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a particle accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles; it is used in investigations in nuclear physics and particle physics. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, for &unr_; &unr_;, instruction in the circle of arts and sciences: cf. F. encyclopédie. See Cyclopedia, and Encyclical. ] [ Formerly written encyclopædy and encyclopedy. ] The full circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Encyclopedic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Embracing the whole circle of learning, or a wide range of subjects.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. encyclopédique. ] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; broad in scope or content; embracing a wide range of subjects; as, a person having encyclopedic knowledge of a subject. [ Also spelled encyclopaedic. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]