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wind-chill

wind-chill is the alternative form of wind chill.

Meaning of wind chill

Noun

wind chill (countable and uncountable, plural wind chills)

  1. The cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.
    • The thermometer says zero, but with the wind chill it's more like minus five.
  2. (broadly) The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed, as far as its cooling effect on exposed flesh is concerned.

Forms of wind-chill

pluralwind-chills

Questions about wind-chill

What is wind-chill the alternative form of?
Wind-chill is the alternative form of wind chill.

Words near wind-chill in the dictionary

  1. wind-break
  2. wind-breaking
  3. wind-breaks
  4. wind-broke
  5. wind-broken
  6. wind-chill
  7. wind-cloud
  8. wind-clouds
  9. wind-dried
  10. wind-dries
  11. wind-driven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wind-chill (page history and authors); wind chill (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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