Vi fant 1 definisjoner av current of air på engelsk.
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| current of air - air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere" | ||
| wind, air current | ||
| atmospheric condition, weather, weather condition, conditions the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation; "they were hoping for good weather"; "every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception"; "the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow" | ||
| airstream a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | ||
| calm air, calm wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale | ||
| gentle wind, breeze, zephyr, air a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck" | ||
| chinook wind, snow eater, chinook large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | ||
| harmattan a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | ||
| crosswind wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | ||
| foehn, fohn a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps | ||
| khamsin an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring | ||
| santa ana a city in western El Salvador | ||
| high wind a very strong wind; "rain and high winds covered the region" | ||
| headwind wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft | ||
| catabatic wind, katabatic wind a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air | ||
| tailwind wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | ||
| doldrums a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | ||
| east wind, easterly, easter a wind from the east | ||
| northwest wind, northwester a wind from the northwest | ||
| southwester, sou'wester a strong wind from the southwest | ||
| sou'easter, southeaster a strong wind from the southeast | ||
| gale a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale | ||
| gust, blast, blow a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust" | ||
| monsoon a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | ||
| monsoon a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter | ||
| north wind, norther, northerly, boreas a wind that blows from the north | ||
| prevailing wind the predominant wind direction; "the prevailing wind is from the southwest" | ||
| samiel, simoom, simoon a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | ||
| south wind, souther, southerly a wind from the south | ||
| squall sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation | ||
| thermal rising current of warm air | ||
| draught, draft the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | ||
| west wind, wester wind that blows from west to east | ||