AIR FLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air flow mean? 

• AIR FLOW (noun)
  The noun AIR FLOW has 1 sense:

1. the flow of air

  Familiarity information: AIR FLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR FLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The flow of air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

air flow; airflow; flow of air

Context example:

she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her

Hypernyms ("air flow" is a kind of...):

flow; flowing (the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases))

 Context examples 

The pathologic changes result in the disruption of the air flow in the bronchial airways.

(Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic, irreversible obstruction of air flow from the lungs.

(Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride is a decongestant that causes constriction of blood vessels mediated through its alpha-adrenergic signaling, thereby reducing blood flow and improving nasal air flow.

(Dimetapp, NCI Thesaurus)

Bronchodilation involves widening of air passage lumina, typically due to bronchial smooth muscle relaxation, and leads to increased air flow.

(Bronchodilation, NCI Thesaurus)

Bronchoconstriction involves narrowing of air passage lumina, typically due to bronchial smooth muscle contraction, and leads to decreased air flow.

(Bronchoconstriction, NCI Thesaurus)

But University of Utah biologist Colleen Farmer and colleagues discovered that alligators and iguanas also have a unidirectional air flow pattern.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

This increases air flow and prevents bronchospasms and may eventually lead to an improvement of airway function.

(Bitolterol, NCI Thesaurus)

Although analysis is ongoing, most waves are expected to be atmospheric gravity waves - up-and-down ripples that form in the atmosphere above something that disturbs air flow, such as a thunderstorm updraft, disruptions of flow around other features, or from some other disturbance that JunoCam does not detect.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)