wind deflection

1. 1.

   the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind

   Synonymswindage

   Broaderdeflection

Questions about wind deflection

What does wind deflection mean?

wind deflection means "the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind".

What is another word for wind deflection?

Close synonyms include windage. 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 wind deflection a common word?

wind deflection 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.