windage

1. 1.

   the retarding force of air friction on a moving object

   Broaderdrag
2. 2.

   the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun

   Broaderdiameter
3. 3.

   exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance)

   Synonymswind exposure

   Broaderexposure
4. 4.

   the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind

   Synonymswind deflection

   Broaderdeflection

Other forms of windage

plural

windages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about windage

What does windage mean?

windage means "the retarding force of air friction on a moving object". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in windage?

windage has 2 syllables: win-dage. The stress falls on "win".

What is another word for windage?

Close synonyms include wind exposure, wind deflection. 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 windage a common word?

windage 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.