Usually means: Balance between Coriolis force, pressure gradient.
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  1. geostrophic: Merriam-Webster
  2. geostrophic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. geostrophic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. geostrophic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. geostrophic: Wiktionary
  6. geostrophic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. geostrophic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. geostrophic: Dictionary.com
  9. Geostrophic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. geostrophic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. geostrophic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. geostrophic: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See geostrophically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (geostrophic)

adjective:  (meteorology) Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the horizontal Coriolis forces and the horizontal pressure forces.
adjective:  (meteorology) Relating to or arising from the deflective force exerted on the atmosphere due to the rotation of the earth.

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