calm air

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   wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

   Synonymscalm

   Broaderwind

   Part ofBeaufort scale

Questions about calm air

What does calm air mean?

calm air means "wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale".

What is another word for calm air?

Close synonyms include calm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calm air a common word?

calm air is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.