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HEADWIND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does headwind mean?
• HEADWIND (noun)
The noun HEADWIND has 1 sense:
1. wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft
Familiarity information: HEADWIND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("headwind" 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)
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