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Trade Wind

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Noun

1. trade, trade wind

steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

Example Sentences:
'they rode the trade winds going west'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trade Wind

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noun
a wind blowing obliquely towards the equator either from the northeast in the N hemisphere or the southeast in the S hemisphere, approximately between latitudes 30° N and S, forming part of the planetary wind system

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Trade Wind

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a wind that blows steadily toward the equator from the northeast in the tropics north of the equator and from the southeast in the tropics south of the equator

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Trade Wind

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n.
often trade winds Any of a consistent system of prevailing winds occupying most of the tropics, constituting the major component of the general circulation of the atmosphere, and blowing northeasterly in the Northern Hemisphere and southeasterly in the Southern Hemisphere.

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