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windtunnel

windtunnel is the alternative form of wind tunnel.

Meaning of wind tunnel

Noun

wind tunnel (plural wind tunnels)

  1. A test facility through which air is forced in a controlled manner so as to study the effects of flow around airfoils, aircraft, motor cars etc.
    • But unlike many other tunnels that lay idle and decaying, Catesby has now found a new use as an aerodynamic wind tunnel for the motor industry.2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, in RAIL, number 997, page 56
    Synonyms:
    air tunnel
  2. (broadly) A space where air currents are naturally funneled through sets of walls or structures, like alleyways or between high-rise buildings.

Forms of windtunnel

pluralwindtunnels

Questions about windtunnel

What is windtunnel the alternative form of?
Windtunnel is the alternative form of wind tunnel.

Words near windtunnel in the dictionary

  1. windthrown
  2. windthrows
  3. windtight
  4. windtrunk
  5. windtrunks
  6. windtunnel
  7. windtunnels
  8. winduh
  9. winduhs
  10. windup
  11. windup radio

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