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wind swells

wind swells is the plural of wind swell.

Meaning of wind swell

Noun

wind swell (plural wind swells)

  1. Waves generated by local winds.
    • Ground swell is sometimes defined as having a period (the average time between the crests of two consecutive waves) of more than 15 seconds, while a locally generated wind swell can be defined as having a period of 11 seconds or less.2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 239

Questions about wind swells

What is wind swells the plural of?
Wind swells is the plural of wind swell.

Words near wind swells in the dictionary

  1. wind stream
  2. wind streams
  3. wind strength
  4. wind strengths
  5. wind swell
  6. wind swells
  7. wind theft
  8. wind throb
  9. wind tower
  10. wind towers
  11. wind tunnel

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