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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A meteorological diagram depicting the distribution of wind direction and speed at a location over a period of time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A table or diagram showing the relative frequency of winds blowing from the different points of the compass, or the relative amount of total wind-movement for each direction; also, a table or diagram showing the connection between the wind-direction and any other meteorological element: thus, a thermal wind-rose shows the average temperature prevailing with winds from different directions.
- noun See
rose and Rœmeria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun meteorology A
diagram in which thespeed anddirection of the winds at a particular location are represented bylines of varying thickness and length superimposed on acompass rose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun weather map showing the frequency and strength of winds from different directions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Translation of German Windrose, compass card : Wind, wind, air + Rose, rose.]
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