cyclone (siklon)

[F. cyclone = Sp. ciclon, Cyclones occur at all hours of the day and night, whereas whirlwinds and tornadoes show a diurnal period as distinctly marked as any in meteorology. Finally, cyclones take place under conditions which involve unequal atmospheric pre ures or densities at the same heights of the atmosphere, due to inequalities in the geographical distribution of temperature and humidity; but whirlwinds occur where for the time the air is unusually warm or moist, and where, consequently, temperature and humidity diminish with height at an abnormally rapid rate. Cyclones are thus phenomena resulting from a disturb ance of the equilibrium of the atmosphere considered horizontally, but whirlwinds and tornadoes have their ori capital L. Cyclopeus, an eye. A true, mean, cyclopean eye would be slightly to the right of the median line. Mind, IX. 93. (c) Vast; gigantic: applied to an early style of masonry, sometimes imitated in later ages, constructed of stones either unhewn or more or le irregularly shaped and fitted together, usually polygonal, but in some more recent examples approaching regular horizontal courses, and often presenting joints of very perfect workmanship. Such Cyclopean Masonry. - Walls of A os, in the Troad. (From papers of the Archæol. Inst. of America.) masonry was fabled to be the work of the Cyclopes. It is remarkable for the immense size of the stones commonly employed, and was most frequently used for the walls of cities and fortre es. The walls of Tiryns, near Nauplia, in Greece, mentioned by Homer, are a good specimen of Cyclopean masonry. The remains of these walls IMG:content-1912.jpg:[graphic] consist of three courses, of which the stones, measuring from 6 to 9 feet long, from 3 to 4 feet wide, and from 2 to 3 feet deep, are rudely shaped, irregular ma es piled on one another. Examples of Cyclopean work occur in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, and elsewhere. The more primitive Cyclopean masonry in Greece, roughly built of stones entirely unhewn, the spaces between the larger stones being filled with smaller ones, is often termed Pelasgic. cyclopedet (sīklō-pēd), n. [ cyclopedia. Peter Lombard's scholastic cyclopede of divinity. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, II. 450. -pēdi-a), n. gin in a vertical disturbance of atmospheric equilibrium. 3. Popularly, a tornado (such as occur in the Cyclo labridæ (sī-klō-lab'ri-dē), n. pl. [NL., dæ, long supposed to be closely related to them. Cyclo lites (sī-klō-lītēz), n. [NL.,