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downwind | American Dictionary

downwind
adjective, adverb
us/ˈdɑʊnˈwɪnd/
in the direction in which the wind is blowing:
We were downwind of the garbage dump and the smell was awful.

Examples of downwind

downwind
The fire was lit on the downwind side with a backfire.
However, the measured pressure distributions show some fore-and-aft asymmetry and the maximum thickness is slightly downwind of the half-chord point.
Section 1 started at the downwind end at which the fly was introduced.
The wake flow may still be detected in the downwind unbroken wave trough velocity profile.
The tunnel was equipped with a variable speed fan at the downwind end, a wave-maker at the upwind end, and beaches at both ends.
Moreover, had either cooling tower been the source of this outbreak, we could have expected to find at least some case-patients downwind from it.
The bait was placed at ground level about 20 cm from the downwind side of the traps.
In the centre of the downwind screen was a round hole circumscribed by a mounting ring to hold a releasing cage.
A wave-like pattern then becomes established downwind of the mountain range, with the air ' bouncing ' between the surface and the stable layer above.
As flies were not able to move downwind from the insertion point, the tests measured upwind displacements only.
Such long distance spread requires the emission of large amounts of airborne virus at source and a high density of susceptible animals downwind.
The layer imitates the profile of the wave, but is displaced downwind about 20".
On this day downwind concentrations are calculated at their greatest of the entire emission period.
Aeolian fractionation can lead to downwind changes in the chemical composition of distal ash fall deposits, connected to changes in the mineralogical composition.
The insects showed a tendency to head approximately downwind with an acute angle to the wind direction.
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