katabatic wind

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   a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air

   Synonymscatabatic wind

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Questions about katabatic wind

What does katabatic wind mean?

katabatic wind means "a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air".

What is another word for katabatic wind?

Close synonyms include catabatic wind. 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 katabatic wind a common word?

katabatic wind 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.