anticyclone
an·ti·cyc·lone
noun
1.
(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern
Origin
From anti- + cyclone. Coined by Sir Francis Galton in the 1860s.
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