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wind chill

/ˈwɪndt͡ʃɪl/

wind chill noun: the cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.

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.
    • A steady northwest breeze will keep wind chills in the teens and single digits for the remainder of your weekend.2021 January 16, Derek Van Dam, “Northeast will be wet and chilly while Southern California should sizzle during holiday weekend”, in CNN
  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.

wind chill meaning in Tamil

wind chill in Tamil

காற்றியக்கக் குளிர்வு

Synonyms of wind chill

Forms of wind chill

pluralwind chills
alternative formwind-chill
alternative formwindchill

Origin of wind chill

From wind + chill.

Questions about wind chill

What does wind chill mean?
Wind chill means the cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.
What is wind chill in Tamil?
Wind chill in Tamil is காற்றியக்கக் குளிர்வு. See Wind chill meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is wind chill?
Wind chill is a noun.
How do you pronounce wind chill?
Wind chill is pronounced /ˈwɪndt͡ʃɪl/.
What is the plural of wind chill?
The plural of wind chill is wind chills.

Words near wind chill in the dictionary

  1. wind cap
  2. wind caps
  3. wind catcher
  4. wind catchers
  5. Wind Cave
  6. wind chill
  7. wind chill factor
  8. wind chill factors
  9. wind chills
  10. wind chime
  11. wind chimes

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