wind-chill index

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wind-chill index [′win ¦chil ‚in‚deks]

(meteorology)

The cooling effect of any combination of temperature and wind, expressed as the loss of body heat in kilogram calories per hour per square meter of skin surface; it is only an approximation because of individual body variations in shape, size, and metabolic rate.

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