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katabatic

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kat⋅a⋅bat⋅ic

  [kat-uh-bat-ik]
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–adjective Meteorology.
(of a wind or air current) moving downward or down a slope. Compare anabatic (def. 1).
Origin:
1915–20; < Gk katabatikós pertaining to going down, equiv. to kata- kata- + ba- (s. of baínein to go; see basis ) + -tikos -tic
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kat·a·bat·ic   (kāt'ə-bāt'ĭk)   
adj.  Of or relating to a cold flow of air traveling downward: a katabatic wind.

[Greek katabatikos, pertaining to descent, from katabatos, descending : kata-, cata- + batos, going; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]
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