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GRADIENT WIND

Specialty Definition: GRADIENT WIND

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

Any horizontal wind velocity tangent to the contour line of a constant pressure surface or an isobar of a geopotential surface. At such points the coriolis acceleration and the centripetal acceleration together exactly balance the horizontal pressure force. Compare geostrophic wind. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GRADIENT WIND

Specialty definitions using "GRADIENT WIND": geostrophic wind, geostrophic wind level. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GRADIENT WIND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gradient wind

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: GRADIENT WIND

Language Translations for "GRADIENT WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gradiens szél. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adientgray indway

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GRADIENT WIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-i-n-n-r-t-w"

-2 letters: detraining.

-3 letters: dandering, detaining, ingrained, integrand, retaining, rewinding, wandering, wintering.

-4 letters: arginine, awninged, daintier, deairing, derating, deriding, draining, dreading, enditing, gradient, ideating, indigent, intwined, nidering, nitrided, readding, redating, training, treading, trending, triennia, twangier, watering, widening.

-5 letters: aginner, airting, anteing, antigen, antired, dandier, darning, darting, dawning, dawting, deaning, denarii, denting, deraign, detrain, dieting, dingier, dinting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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