Crossword clues for crosswind
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A wind blowing perpendicular to a line of travel
WordNet
n. wind blowing across the path or a ship or aircraft
Wikipedia
A crosswind is any wind that has a perpendicular component to the line or direction of travel. This affects the aerodynamics of many forms of transport. Moving non-parallel to the wind's direction creates a crosswind component on the object and thus increasing the apparent wind on the object; such use of cross wind travel is used to advantage by sailing craft, kiteboarding craft, power kiting, etc. On the other side, crosswind moves the path of vehicles sideways and can be a hazard.
Usage examples of "crosswind".
Crosswinds, smarmily flattering her and asking if there was any way they could help, now that she was all alone in the world, poor little thing.
Crosswinds buffeted the car, and Trav had plenty of reason to keep his eyes on the road.
Her skill was such that the maddening surges of crosswinds and updrafts only bounced her a little where any other pilot would have been battered.
Beyond lay the crusted ridge of permafrost that had built up in the warring crosswinds of the Euston Road.
Bouyed by the crosswinds, Meadows fell slowly through the starry sky - fell and fell - and laughed, until he smashed thunderously through the glass canopy of the station roof amid hordes of homegoing commuters.
I kept a little right aileron and some left rudder to counteract the slight crosswind and, when the plane came up on the ground effect, I held it there, ten feet off the ground, and pulled in the flaps while I waited for the airspeed to build up to V sub y, best rate of climb.
It was he who steered by the direction indicator, allowing for magnetic variation and a crosswind, and I with small triumphs who checked our passage over the roads and rivers two thousand feet below and pointed them out to him, earning grins and nods.
They would have resorted to the rudder only in the event of engine failure on takeoff or when landing in a strong crosswind.
He walked the steering engines, lining her up for flare-out and hover-down-then dropped the port deck against a stiff crosswind blowing from landward: the nose wandered a little toward the shore, but the big starship stayed on her original course like she was riding rails.
By processing signals from five gyroscopes, an inertial guidance system, and a radar altimeter, the hover coupler literally took over the fine adjustments of pitch for both main and tail rotors, allowing the Pave Low to correct instantly for pitch, roll, yaw, and the effects of unexpected updrafts, downdrafts, crosswinds, and even the jolting change in weight as troops exited the aircraft.
He lased the two men and got a range of twelve hundred meters, tough downhill and with a crosswind.
I've been with Marty, seen her navigate a portal approach with three bad rollers in an eighty-klick-per-hour crosswind.