airflow

American  

[air-floh] / ˈɛərˌfloʊ /

noun

1. the air flowing past or through a moving body, as an airplane or automobile.

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airflow British  

/ ˈɛəˌfləʊ /

noun

1. the flow of air in a wind tunnel or past a moving aircraft, car, train, etc; airstream

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Etymology

Origin of airflow

First recorded in 1910–15; air ¹ + flow

Example Sentences

Next came leg-movement detectors, breathing bands, a microphone, a nasal airflow monitor and a finger pulse oximeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Insufficient airflow control can prevent the vortex from forming, causing the fire to behave more like a conventional burn.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

It looks like a hotel, except the airflow in each room is designed to be negative pressure, which can help prevent contaminated air from leaving the room.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

The trouble with this was that the abductor muscles are the ones that open the trachea, allowing airflow to the lungs.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

I can't quite make a perfect seal, so there's airflow . . . getting colder now . . . getting pretty uncomfortable .

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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