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wind chills

wind chills is the plural 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.

Questions about wind chills

What is wind chills the plural of?
Wind chills is the plural of wind chill.

Words near wind chills in the dictionary

  1. wind catchers
  2. Wind Cave
  3. wind chill
  4. wind chill factor
  5. wind chill factors
  6. wind chills
  7. wind chime
  8. wind chimes
  9. wind chop
  10. wind cone
  11. wind cones

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