The difference between Cyclone and Tornado
When used as nouns, cyclone means a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure, whereas tornado means a characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped .
check bellow for the other definitions of Cyclone and Tornado
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Cyclone as a noun:
A system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure.
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Cyclone as a noun:
A low pressure system.
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Cyclone as a noun (informal):
The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
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Cyclone as a noun:
A strong wind.
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Cyclone as a noun:
A South Pacific and Indian Ocean weather phenomenon that results in wind speeds of around 150 to 200 km/h.
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Cyclone as a noun:
A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
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Tornado as a noun (meteorology):
A characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped .
Examples:
"A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour."