current of air

1. 1.

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

   “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”

   Synonymswindair current

   Broaderweather

   Narrowerairstreamcalm airbreezechinookharmattancrosswindfohnkhamsinSanta Anahigh wind

Questions about current of air

What does current of air mean?

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

What is another word for current of air?

Close synonyms include wind, air current. 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 current of air a common word?

current of air is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.