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tropical cyclone

noun

: a cyclone originating in the tropics
specifically : hurricane

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The 125-foot-long and 279-foot-wide facility will be able to operate in rough seas and reportedly withstand powerful tropical cyclones on Earth. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025 The previous record-holding storm, 2010’s Typhoon Megi, was located in the Pacific Ocean, where warmer waters typically permit the most powerful tropical cyclones to grow a little stronger than those in the Atlantic Ocean. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2025 Hurricane Melissa was the most powerful tropical cyclone so far in 2025. Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025 Young and Solomon Hsiang, a colleague at Stanford, tried to link state-by-state mortality data to five hundred tropical cyclones since 1930. Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tropical cyclone

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tropical cyclone was in 1851

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“Tropical cyclone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tropical%20cyclone. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.

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