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crosswinds

crosswinds is the plural of crosswind.

Meaning of crosswind

Noun

crosswind (plural crosswinds)

  1. A wind blowing across a line of travel, especially perpendicularly.
    • Correlation of the DFDR and CVR recordings disclosed that the flightcrew had set the flaps and stabilizer trim at 10° and about 5° aircraft noseup, respectively, for takeoff. A rolling takeoff was made, takeoff thrust was stabilized at 80 KIAS, and left rudder and right aileron were used to...1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.11 Flight Recorders”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Chicago...

Questions about crosswinds

What is crosswinds the plural of?
Crosswinds is the plural of crosswind.

Words near crosswinds in the dictionary

  1. crossways
  2. crosswedge
  3. Crosswhite
  4. Crosswhites
  5. crosswind
  6. crosswinds
  7. crosswing
  8. crosswings
  9. crosswire
  10. crosswires
  11. crosswise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosswinds (page history and authors); crosswind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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