Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Anticyclone \An"ti*cy`clone\, 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.
Source : WordNet®
anticyclone
n : (meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high-pressure
center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and
counter-clockwise in the southern [ant: {cyclone}]