Usually means: Wind blowing perpendicular to direction.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. crosswind: Merriam-Webster
  2. crosswind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crosswind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crosswind: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crosswind: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crosswind, crosswind: Wordnik
  7. crosswind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crosswind: Wiktionary
  9. crosswind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crosswind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crosswind: Dictionary.com
  12. Crosswind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. crosswind: Rhymezone
  14. crosswind: FreeDictionary.org
  15. crosswind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. crosswind: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. crosswind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crosswind: Encyclopedia

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. crosswind: Chapters in the Sky

(Note: See crosswinds as well.)

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noun:  A wind blowing across a line of travel, especially perpendicularly.

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