CURRENT OF AIR

Pronunciation (US):

• CURRENT OF AIR (noun)
  The noun CURRENT OF AIR has 1 sense:

1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

  Familiarity information: CURRENT OF AIR used as a noun is very rare.

• CURRENT OF AIR (noun)

Meaning:

Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

air current; current of air; wind

Context examples:

trees bent under the fierce winds / when there is no wind, row / the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere

Hypernyms ("current of air" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; weather; weather condition (the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

Meronyms (substance of "current of air"):

air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "current of air"):

airstream (a relatively well-defined prevailing wind)

sou'wester; southwester (a strong wind from the southwest)

sou'easter; southeaster (a strong wind from the southeast)

gale (a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale)

blast; blow; gust (a strong current of air)

monsoon (a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter)

monsoon (any wind that changes direction with the seasons)

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly (a wind that blows from the north)

prevailing wind (the predominant wind direction)

samiel; simoom; simoon (a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa)

south wind; souther; southerly (a wind from the south)

squall (sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation)

thermal (rising current of warm air)

draft; draught (a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle))

northwest wind; northwester (a wind from the northwest)

east wind; easter; easterly (a wind from the east)

calm air (wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale)

air; breeze; gentle wind; zephyr (a slight wind (usually refreshing))

chinook; chinook wind; snow eater (a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies)

harmattan (a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter)

crosswind (wind blowing across the path or a ship or aircraft)

foehn; fohn (a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps)

khamsin (an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring)

Santa Ana (a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast)

high wind (a very strong wind)

headwind (wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft)

catabatic wind; katabatic wind (a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air)

tailwind (wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft)

doldrums (a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific)

west wind; wester (wind that blows from west to east)