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katabatic wind

katabatic wind noun: a drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.

Noun

katabatic wind (plural katabatic winds)

  1. A drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.
    • Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still.2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023

katabatic wind meaning in Tamil and Kannada

katabatic wind in Tamil

புவி ஈர்ப்புக்காற்று

katabatic wind in Kannada

ಅಧೋಗಾಮಿ ಮಾರುತ, ಕೆಳಮುಖ ಗಾಳಿ

Forms of katabatic wind

pluralkatabatic winds

Questions about katabatic wind

What does katabatic wind mean?
Katabatic wind means a drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.
What is katabatic wind in Tamil?
Katabatic wind in Tamil is புவி ஈர்ப்புக்காற்று. See Katabatic wind meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is katabatic wind?
Katabatic wind is a noun.
What is the plural of katabatic wind?
The plural of katabatic wind is katabatic winds.

Words near katabatic wind in the dictionary

  1. Kataasan
  2. Katabanian
  3. katabases
  4. katabasis
  5. katabatic
  6. katabatic wind
  7. katabatic winds
  8. katabatically
  9. katabatics
  10. katablepharid
  11. katablepharids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: katabatic wind (page history and authors); katabatic wind (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); katabatic wind (Kannada 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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