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PREVAILING WIND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prevailing wind mean?
• PREVAILING WIND (noun)
The noun PREVAILING WIND has 1 sense:
1. the predominant wind direction
Familiarity information: PREVAILING WIND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The predominant wind direction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Context example:
the prevailing wind is from the southwest
Hypernyms ("prevailing wind" 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 "prevailing wind"):
antitrades (wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds)
trade; trade wind (steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator)
antitrade; antitrade wind (winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics)
Context examples
No stream could be more convenient for navigation, since the prevailing wind is south-east, and sailing boats may make a continuous progress to the Peruvian frontier, dropping down again with the current.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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