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relative wind

[ wind ]
/ wɪnd /
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noun
the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
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Origin of relative wind

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby relative wind

relative pitch, relative pronoun, relative temperature scale, relative to, relative topology, relative wind, relativism, relativist, relativistic, relativistic mass, relativistic quantum mechanics
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How to use relative wind in a sentence

  • He feels the wind produced by the motion of his machine through the air—the so-called relative wind—but no other.

    Meteorology|Charles Fitzhugh Talman
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