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MESOCYCLONE

Specialty Definition: MESOCYCLONE

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Weather

A storm-scale region of rotation, typically around 2-6 miles in diameter and often found in the right rear flank of a supercell (or often on the eastern, or front, flank of an HP storm). The circulation of a mesocyclone covers an area much larger than the tornado that may develop within it. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MESOCYCLONE

Specialty definitions using "MESOCYCLONE": Bear's CageHP Storm or HP SupercellLandspoutOccluded MesocyclonePseudo-Cold Front, Pseudo-Warm FrontWrapping Gust Front. (references)

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Photo Album: MESOCYCLONE

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Project Vortex-99. An occluded mesocyclone tornado rated an F3 by an NWS damage survey. Occluded means old circulation on a storm; this tornado was forming while the new circulation was beginning to form the tornadoes which preceeded the F5 Oklahoma City tornado. Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MESOCYCLONE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mesocyclone

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: MESOCYCLONE

Derivations

Words beginning with "MESOCYCLONE": mesocyclones. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MESOCYCLONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-o-s-y"

-3 letters: clemency, coelomes, cyclones, lonesome, monocles, mooneyes, oenomels.

-4 letters: cleomes, coelome, coeloms, colones, console, cyclone, cymenes, economy, enclose, looneys, monocle, monoecy, mooleys, mooneye, myceles, oenomel, someone.

-5 letters: celoms, cleome, clones, coelom, colone, colons, colony, comely, comose, coneys, consol, cooees, cooeys, cycles, cyclos, cymene, cymols, cymose, lemons, lemony, leones, locoes, looeys, looney, loosen, lycees, melons.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-m-n-o-o-s-y"
 

+1 letter: mesocyclones.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MESOCYCLONE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 45 53 4F 43 59 43 4C 4F 4E 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000101 01010011 01001111 01000011 01011001 01000011 01001100 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#69 &#83 &#79 &#67 &#89 &#67 &#76 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0045 0053 004F 0043 0059 0043 004C 004F 004E 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4739534937593746494839

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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