Definizione monolingua

tornado

tornado m. (feminine tornada, masculine plural tornados, feminine plural tornadas, infinitive tornar)

1. Masculine singular past participle of verb tornar.

tornado (plural tornados or tornadoes)

1. (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

   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.

Definizione dizionario tornado

	tornado
	A rapidly rotating column of air developed around a very intense low-pressure centre.

	ciclone
	column of air

mulinello

uragano

Altri significati:

A rolled pork roast.

(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.