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heat index

heat index noun: a figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

Noun

heat index (plural heat indexes or heat indices)

  1. (US) A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

heat index meaning in Tamil

heat index in Tamil

வெப்ப குறியீட்டு அட்டவணை

Forms of heat index

pluralheat indexes
pluralheat indices

Origin of heat index

From heat + index.

Questions about heat index

What does heat index mean?
Heat index means a figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.
What is heat index in Tamil?
Heat index in Tamil is வெப்ப குறியீட்டு அட்டவணை. See Heat index meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heat index?
Heat index is a noun.
What is the plural of heat index?
The plural of heat index is heat indexes.

Words near heat index in the dictionary

  1. heat exhaustion
  2. heat gun
  3. heat guns
  4. heat haze
  5. heat hazes
  6. heat index
  7. heat indexes
  8. heat indices
  9. heat intolerance
  10. heat intolerances
  11. heat island

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heat index (page history and authors); heat index (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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