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OPPOSING WIND

Specialty Definition: OPPOSING WIND

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Electrical Engineering

Wind blowing in the opposite direction to that in which the waves are travelling. Source: European Union. (references)

Geography

Wind which blows in a direction opposite to that in which an object is moving, with respect to the earth's surface. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: OPPOSING WIND

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

Danish

  

modvind (head wind). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tegenwind (head wind). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vastatuuli (contrary wind), aallokon vastainen tuuli. (various references)

   

French

  

vent devant, vent debout, vent de bout, vent contraire. (various references)

   

German

  

widriger Wind, Gegenwind (headwind). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άνεμος ανάντι, αντίθετος άνεμος (head wind). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vento contrario all'onda, vento contrario (head wind). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

opposingay indway

   

Portuguese

  

vento contrário à onda, vento contrário (counterblast). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

viento en contra (headwind), viento de cara (head wind), viento contrario a las olas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motvind (dead wind, head-wind, upwind). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OPPOSING WIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-p-s-w"

-3 letters: disowning, poisoning.

-4 letters: indowing, iodopsin, opinions, opposing, pogonips, poinding, snipping, snooding, snooping, spooning, swooning, swooping, swopping, windigos, windings, woopsing.

-5 letters: dipping, downing, dowsing, dwining, godowns, indigos, inwinds, nipping, noising, noosing, opining, opinion, opioids, opsonin, pidgins, pinions, pipings, pogonip, poising, ponding, pongids, pooping, sipping, sniping, snowing, sopping, spongin, swiping, windigo, winding, wisping, wooding.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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