WINDAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windage mean? 

• WINDAGE (noun)
  The noun WINDAGE has 4 senses:

1. the retarding force of air friction on a moving object

2. the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun

3. exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance)

4. the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind

  Familiarity information: WINDAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The retarding force of air friction on a moving object

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("windage" is a kind of...):

drag; retarding force (the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("windage" is a kind of...):

diam; diameter (the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

wind exposure; windage

Hypernyms ("windage" is a kind of...):

exposure (vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

wind deflection; windage

Hypernyms ("windage" is a kind of...):

bending; deflection; deflexion (the property of being bent or deflected)

 Context examples 

“Seven yards windage, Hal,” said one, whose hair was streaked with gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)