wind chill
The cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels…The cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.
» The cold wind chilled the traveler.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)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.
Examples
3 sentencesThe cold wind chilled the traveler.
An icy blast of wind chilled me to the bone.
When we take the wind-chill factor into account, the temperature must have been lower than thirty degrees below zero centigrade.
deWenn man den Windkühlefaktor noch mitberücksichtigt, muß die Temperatur unter −30 °C gelegen haben. — Waldelfe
Origin
From wind + chill.From wind + chill.
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Forms
plural: wind chillsSynonyms
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