AIRSTREAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does airstream mean? 

• AIRSTREAM (noun)
  The noun AIRSTREAM has 2 senses:

1. a relatively well-defined prevailing wind

2. the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

  Familiarity information: AIRSTREAM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRSTREAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A relatively well-defined prevailing wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("airstream" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airstream"):

jet stream (a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere; has important effects of the formation of weather fronts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

airstream; backwash; race; slipstream; wash

Hypernyms ("airstream" is a kind of...):

flow (any uninterrupted stream or discharge)