WIND TUNNEL

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wind tunnel mean? 

• WIND TUNNEL (noun)
  The noun WIND TUNNEL has 1 sense:

1. a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft

  Familiarity information: WIND TUNNEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIND TUNNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wind tunnel" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

 Context examples 

Last month, a scale model of the QueSST design completed testing in the 8-by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

The scientists tested the response of these mosquitoes to skin odorants by placing them in a wind tunnel with a plate of glass beads that had been worn in socks for several hours to give them the scent of human foot odor.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)

The researchers analyzed owl-inspired feather wing models with and without leading edge serrations, by combining large-eddy simulations – a mathematical model for turbulence used in computational fluid dynamics to simulate air flows – and Particle-Image Velocimetry (PIV) and force measurements in a low-speed wind tunnel.

(Owls' Wings Key to Beating Wind Turbine Noise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This includes a static inlet performance test and a low-speed wind tunnel test at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)