Usually means: Wind ascending slopes due to heating.
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  1. anabatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. anabatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anabatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anabatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anabatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. anabatic: Wordnik
  7. anabatic: Wiktionary
  8. anabatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. anabatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. anabatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. anabatic: Dictionary.com
  12. Anabatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Anabatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. anabatic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. anabatic: Rhymezone
  16. Anabatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. anabatic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. anabatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. anabatic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. anabatic: Merriam-Webster

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  1. anabatic: Encyclopedia

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  1. anabatic: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anabatic)

adjective:  (of a warm air current) rising (up a slope)
adjective:  (medicine) Of or pertaining to anabasis
noun:  Short for anabatic wind. [(physics, meteorology) An upslope wind; usually applied only when the wind is blowing up a hill or mountain as a result of local surface heating and apart from the effects of the larger scale circulation; the opposite of katabatic wind. The most common type anabatic is the valley wind.]

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