wind chill
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3.6
- noun
- /wɪnd tʃɪl/
- UK
:
sensación térmica
- Any kind of available protection, whether natural or man-made, can be very valuable in reducing the amount of wind chill.
- wind chill factor
- zero wind chill
- wind chill temperature
Examples
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Besides, a bitter wind chill factor was not exactly a surprise in Scottish summers these days.
Fiction book (2000) -
I don't care that it's January and the wind chill is 23 below.
Blog text (22) -
The wind chill, they say, will make it seem like ten below tonight.
Fiction book (1997) -
So we go from a wind chill factor to a wind heat factor.
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It's 44 degrees outside and feels like 37 with the wind chill.
Blog text (4) -
Because of the wind chill and the snow that fell Thursday night, there is no outdoor recess Friday.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the winter, when the wind chill is in the single digits, the cold rips through your riding pants and numbs your legs.
Blog text (29) -
Twenty below zero in Custer at 9:14, wind chill minus forty-eight.
Fiction book (1993) -
The air wasn't especially cold, maybe thirty-five or forty degrees Fahrenheit, but the wind-chill factor made it seem much worse.
Fiction book (1991) -
The weather service warned that a wind chill of minus 25 can freeze skin within 15 minutes.
Antonyms
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the effect of wind making the air feel colder' is directly compositional from 'wind' (moving air) + 'chill' (cold feeling): it names the chilling effect caused by wind. This descriptive compound follows a predictable noun-noun formation and is readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Wind chill comes from the simple image of moving wind taking heat away from your skin so the air 'feels colder' than the thermometer shows. That's why wind chill describes how cold it really feels outside.