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windchill

windchill 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 windchill

pluralwindchills

Words formed from windchill

Questions about windchill

What is windchill the alternative form of?
Windchill is the alternative form of wind chill.

Words near windchill in the dictionary

  1. windcheater
  2. windcheatered
  3. windcheaters
  4. windchest
  5. windchests
  6. windchill
  7. windchilled
  8. windchills
  9. windchime
  10. windchimes
  11. windclothes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windchill (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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